Three Flats Bettcher
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I also do other stuff too.
what is this, a city for cars?
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM
what is this, a city for cars?
cheeseburger-eating surrender-monkeys
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
cheeseburger-eating surrender-monkeys
Doing the top of this diagram but twenty stories tall just makes twenty times the number of car trips
October 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Doing the top of this diagram but twenty stories tall just makes twenty times the number of car trips
gonna guess at least some of these design and policy decisions were made by people who spoke Latin as a first language
October 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
gonna guess at least some of these design and policy decisions were made by people who spoke Latin as a first language
Channelside, Tampa
September 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Channelside, Tampa
there is still corner retail
September 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
there is still corner retail
The assumed pedestrian route?
Green - sidewalk
Yellow - a casual comfortable stroll in the median
Red - Frogger in the slip lanes of confused drivers
Green - sidewalk
Yellow - a casual comfortable stroll in the median
Red - Frogger in the slip lanes of confused drivers
September 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The assumed pedestrian route?
Green - sidewalk
Yellow - a casual comfortable stroll in the median
Red - Frogger in the slip lanes of confused drivers
Green - sidewalk
Yellow - a casual comfortable stroll in the median
Red - Frogger in the slip lanes of confused drivers
My favorite vehicle-only conflict point is where the northbound and southbound thru traffic on the road have to weave around each other in one car length. This should be standard design practice everywhere.
Pedestrians and bicycles are acrobats and can levitate over this easily, right? Right??
Pedestrians and bicycles are acrobats and can levitate over this easily, right? Right??
September 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
My favorite vehicle-only conflict point is where the northbound and southbound thru traffic on the road have to weave around each other in one car length. This should be standard design practice everywhere.
Pedestrians and bicycles are acrobats and can levitate over this easily, right? Right??
Pedestrians and bicycles are acrobats and can levitate over this easily, right? Right??
Even a big green belt park can benefit from one of these (and waste receptacles) at the entrance
August 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Even a big green belt park can benefit from one of these (and waste receptacles) at the entrance
Like clothing and music, memes are cyclical every few decades. Looks like this old chestnut is current again.
August 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Like clothing and music, memes are cyclical every few decades. Looks like this old chestnut is current again.
You’d think that it would be easier to find the other kind of fourplex that they’d build all over the neighborhoods I lived in in college. I’ve seen examples locally but none newer than about 1980. They’re not bad - they live like a house even!
May 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
You’d think that it would be easier to find the other kind of fourplex that they’d build all over the neighborhoods I lived in in college. I’ve seen examples locally but none newer than about 1980. They’re not bad - they live like a house even!
What to do with unobstructed sweeping views at the top of a popular regional park?
❌ some little sidewalk cafes with apartments on top
❌ Cinque Terre on Puget Sound
❌ Miami 2 with some condos
❌ literally any other complimentary use
✅ eight to ten McMansions that probably value their privacy
❌ some little sidewalk cafes with apartments on top
❌ Cinque Terre on Puget Sound
❌ Miami 2 with some condos
❌ literally any other complimentary use
✅ eight to ten McMansions that probably value their privacy
March 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
What to do with unobstructed sweeping views at the top of a popular regional park?
❌ some little sidewalk cafes with apartments on top
❌ Cinque Terre on Puget Sound
❌ Miami 2 with some condos
❌ literally any other complimentary use
✅ eight to ten McMansions that probably value their privacy
❌ some little sidewalk cafes with apartments on top
❌ Cinque Terre on Puget Sound
❌ Miami 2 with some condos
❌ literally any other complimentary use
✅ eight to ten McMansions that probably value their privacy
It’s from the wrong side of the mountains but I think columnar basalt would be a cool and interesting street rock that is at least a little local
March 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
It’s from the wrong side of the mountains but I think columnar basalt would be a cool and interesting street rock that is at least a little local
The cities in the list on the right aren’t exactly hotbeds of growth and commerce unless you are in the retirement services industry
March 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The cities in the list on the right aren’t exactly hotbeds of growth and commerce unless you are in the retirement services industry
Can’t wait to make the experience of the Brandon Boulevard bike lane even more Brandon by adding a thundering bus lane on the sidewalk side
February 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Can’t wait to make the experience of the Brandon Boulevard bike lane even more Brandon by adding a thundering bus lane on the sidewalk side
There is absolutely precedent for just running these things through a building too, which could be a development opportunity that helps fund the project
February 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
There is absolutely precedent for just running these things through a building too, which could be a development opportunity that helps fund the project
These random little public spaces hidden above street level are one thing I really enjoy about Seattle.
February 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
These random little public spaces hidden above street level are one thing I really enjoy about Seattle.
Compare to nearby master planned communities they built in the 80s and 90s. The “New Urbanist” ones clearly have more thought put into pedestrian design and flipped a few things around (parking in the back! Streets that connect!) but their scale is similar. It’s still a postwar suburb at heart.
February 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Compare to nearby master planned communities they built in the 80s and 90s. The “New Urbanist” ones clearly have more thought put into pedestrian design and flipped a few things around (parking in the back! Streets that connect!) but their scale is similar. It’s still a postwar suburb at heart.
Here are two developments like this from opposite sides of the continent. There is a core of strip malls with maybe some apartments above, some higher density areas closer in, and then slightly different style suburban tract homes for a long ways beyond. It’s the next stage in suburbs.
February 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Here are two developments like this from opposite sides of the continent. There is a core of strip malls with maybe some apartments above, some higher density areas closer in, and then slightly different style suburban tract homes for a long ways beyond. It’s the next stage in suburbs.