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Commuter rail makes almost no sense at all in KC. It would be such a colossal waste of money to move so few people This is the crux of the issue. Commuter rail would be fine if you could just pour some concrete slabs for the stations and buy some trains. Should be nice and cheap. But infrastructure...

This development makes sense if you look at it in the context of there being a surplus of development sites downtown which are just sitting around waiting until its their turn to be built on. This development would be bad news if it indicated a lack of demand for new construction, but new proposals ...

Acceleration/deceleration is more important than max speed for systems that have stops close together (ie, almost any local transit service). But regardless, I thought I remembered the KC streetcar vehicles having a top speed of around 55 mph?

https://cityscenekc.com/arts-related-116-2m-apartment-plan-in-works-for-45th-and-main/ 300 units 460 underground parking spaces $116 million price tag "ground level mixed-use and landscape is intended to create a design focused node connecting the streetcar to the arts district" height unk...

The Business Journal reports that a demolition permit has been filed for the Denny's.

The city is an opposing party?

I was always nervous about any deal that involved Waddell & Reed. We can hope that they can find another tenant in time. This may have already been covered, but were there any corporate guarantors for the development/leasing of the building? If the payments are still flowing from somewhere , th...

Testing volume had been declining in the US but it bounced back up again last week. Part of this is because of Texas having highly incomplete reporting during the storm, which of course caused the number of reported cases to fall faster than it should have. When testing volume is irregular it's bett...

chaglang wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 11:36 amSo a zero lot line house seems to be the only way you can satisfy the KCMO requirement that adjoining buildings be on separate lots

This doesn't appear to be correct.




(I don't know anything about trash pickup specifically.)

Zero lot line houses aren't unique to Kansas City. As far as I understand it, the purpose is just to make the side yards more functional by shifting the house to the side of the lot. KCMO allows zero lot line houses in every residential zone but townhouses are not allowed in the lower density ones. ...

Townhouses and zero lot line houses are not the same thing. A zero lot line house is defined as a house that has exactly one side yard. KCMO allows for both zero lot line houses and townhouses. Though for some reason there is a limit of 9 attached townhouses.

kas1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 10:33 am

earthling wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:53 amThe vaccines haven't been confirmed if they prevent from getting COVID

fwiw, this is not accurate

and for Moderna too

earthling wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:53 amThe vaccines haven't been confirmed if they prevent from getting COVID

fwiw, this is not accurate

Maybe I missed something along the way, but I’d like to know what you all think the solution to the over gentrification of the cores of cities actually is? If inclusionary zoning is bad, then by what alternative mechanism do we ensure there will still be a place for low income people in our downtow...

Right. The point I was trying to make was just that they were already said to be interested in the name and so they are probably the ones who registered it. I randomly came across something recently saying that the idea had been pitched to the players and was received positively.

The women's soccer team that's coming to Kansas City was said to be changing its name to the Monarchs. Cant find any official source from a brief search.

This development site is massive. They can fit 300+ units on it in a standard six-story wood-frame building. It makes no sense to build a far more expensive tower.

You're talking about a neighborhood that just shot down a very modestly scaled mixed-use development because they wanted more parking. Revitalized or not, that's not the type of neighborhood that should exist 10 blocks from the middle of downtown. In a healthy city, development expands outward from ...

What does this give you except a connection of the north Westside to Crossroads for the elites? Removing all the scars from highways and railroads should be one of the city's top priorities when it comes to revitalizing the entire downtown area, including all of the adjacent neighborhoods. Those th...

I'd assume that I-70 wouldn't be able to accommodate all the traffic from I-35 without major expansion throughout the stretch of shared roadway. What's the argument against routing I-35 along the edge of the West Bottoms? I know that idea has been around for a while. I'd do that and connect it direc...