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I know there are a lot of people who disagree with me but I think that 30 foot green space setback next to roads with walls separating the houses like this one in Folsom is just plain stupid. Space that could be an active participant in the community instead makes roads feel empty and land gets eaten faster.
I know it’s probably this way to preserve the “nature” feel Folsom is going for but it simply does not work the way it was intended.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Anna // Sep 4, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I could not agree more.
2 Mike // Sep 4, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I don’t think you get the point.
3 wburg // Sep 5, 2008 at 12:35 pm
It’s a big warning sign: DANGER! DO NOT WALK HERE!
Common in any suburb, not just Folsom. The assumption is that feeder streets have to be severed bodily from neighborhood streets, and that nobody would ever want to walk along those feeder streets.
Look at equivalent feeder streets in traditional neighborhoods: H Street, J Street, Folsom Boulevard, Land Park Drive, Riverside Boulevard. The street is part of the neighborhood, there are places to walk, and there are regular retail/commercial functions interspersed with residential areas and community uses. Two of these corridors were originally streetcar corridors, but even early auto-centric corridors feature a lot more detail on feeder streets than the modern model does.
And that featureless berm with asphalt on one side, a cinderblock wall and tract housing on the other, certainly doesn’t look like “nature” to me.
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