corbs315 Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 Dont, wait! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 29, 2023 Share Posted June 29, 2023 39 minutes ago, 004n063 said: it's a stroad mindset Stroad? I didn't find it in my dictionary. A combination of strange and toad, or a typo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
004n063 Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 1 hour ago, editor said: Stroad? I didn't find it in my dictionary. A combination of strange and toad, or a typo? It's a portmanteau of street and road. Popularized (to some extent) by Chuck Marohn the Strong Towns organization. Basically posits that there is a thing, for which we might as well use the term "street," and another thing, for which we might as well use the term "road," and that most North American urban planning and traffic engineering have collapsed the two into a dangerous, expensive, and ubiquitous hybrid that we might as well call a "stroad". Marohn (a former traffic engineer) differentiates the road/street dichotomy from the heirarchical approach (access/collector/arterial/highway) by focusing principally on function and purpose, rather than traffic volume capacity. The platonic ideal of a street is a place - a platform for building community wealth. A successful street is likely to be filled with all sorts of traffic-slowing activity, be it shopping or dining or kids playing basketball. The traffic engineer's goal here should be safety and universality of access; automotive speed and throughput should not be considered priorities. Some of the world's best streets don't permit any cars at all. The platonic ideal of a road, on the other hand, is a high-speed connection between two places. Funnily enough, these also don't require cars. Some of the best roads in the world are railroads. But it might be best for our purposes to think of a rural Farm-to-Market or interstate highway. Where it gets dicey is when we try to combine these functions by developing our arterial roads into our primary commercial spaces (or designing our primary commercial spaces like highways). We end up with stroads (think all of, but especially western, Westheimer) that are not particularly nice places to be but are also not particularly efficient roads. Thus when a building advertises to businesses by trying to come off as both an appealing place and a place suited to high-speed car traffic, it is exhibiting a stroad mindset. But you're better off reading Marohn's Confessions of a Recovering Engineer than my explanation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 14 hours ago, 004n063 said: It's a portmanteau of street and road. Popularized (to some extent) by Chuck Marohn the Strong Towns organization. Well, now I feel a bit foolish, because I've seen that word a thousand times before, but somehow didn't recognize it this time. Thanks for the clue-by-four! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sapo2367 Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 The classic stroad picture 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 On 4/18/2023 at 5:57 AM, 004n063 said: Still not in love with the design (wish it fronted Austin or Caroline instead of Webster, for one thing), but man, it is nice to know that it won't just be a half-comstructed mess forever. It's a long narrow, piece of property, an Insurance company owns the property/building facing Caroline St. They had no choice but face it toward Webster St. and I'm glad they put the parking behind the building instead of in front of it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_cuevas713 Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 19 minutes ago, hindesky said: It's a long narrow, piece of property, an Insurance company owns the property/building facing Caroline St. They had no choice but face it toward Webster St. and I'm glad they put the parking behind the building instead of in front of it. I think that's the most important thing. The parking is in the back and pedestrians don't feel like an afterthought for the neighborhood. I actually like the design though. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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phillip_white Posted December 8, 2023 Author Share Posted December 8, 2023 3 hours ago, hindesky said: I just realized that they've removed all of the stucco and brick that was previously installed. And removed (or covered up) all of the windows facing the parking area. Very confusing. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hindesky Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 Windows were covered up to keep them from being damaged. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bobruss Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 Glad to see this moving forward. This will be a nice addition to the neighborhood. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hindesky Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Leasing material from Blue Ox Group. https://www.crexi.com/lease/widgets/238/properties/666232/texas-2204-austin-st-retail   1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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