| Nov. 26th, 2008 @ 08:30 am Thesis |
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After some drafts I won't share, I'm finally onto a scheme that I like. It's still a bit weak, and of course, schematic, but I'm liking how it's blocking up.
It's a Transit Oriented Design, sited on the current North Hollywood Park&Ride (Lankershim and Cumpston, if you wanna look it up- it's a flat parking lot). My proposal is that both mass transit and the neighborhood will be better served by increasing the density and types of functions on that parking lot. Businesses would include grocery, hardware, services like a post office and DMV, small offices and live-work units (accountants, attorneys), lots of food, and a day care. How cool would it be to pick up the kiddo, and grab some groceries for dinner, mail that bill and hop on a bus?
Orange is commercial/retail, yellow is housing, and blue is special. Here, it's the skybridges and connection space. It's still under development and will eventually look like buildings. I'm still tackling some weak areas.
Underground is the subway, and across the proposed skybridge is an express bus (the Orange Line) that acts kinda like light rail in that it has dedicated roads (and this is due to political bullshit in L.A. LA County Metro owns the land where the tracks for the Red Car ran. They're prohibited from using them for any rail except deep-bore subway (25 feet underground), oh, and prohibited from using tax funds to develop a deep-bore subway. Thanks, car culture! Fuck you in your goat ass. |
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