Daily Archives: June 3, 2010

What a New Fire Station Could Look Like

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Barnaby Zall

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At last night’s Speakers’ Series event on public places, Planning Director Rollin Stanley showed many examples of interesting design for public places. While doing something else today, I came across pictures of a new fire station in St. Paul, Minnesota:

Note that the station is fit into an irregular shape, which was one of the reasons we were told the new fire station in White Flint couldn’t be put in the empty State Highway Administration land left over from the Montrose Parkway.…

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Barnaby Zall

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A deer, flashing golden in the sun, leaped across the road in front of my car as I pulled up to Jean Cryor Park today, and another peered at me from the underbrush, big black eyes alert for danger. A golfer thwocked at a ball on the lush green fields. The large kids’ play area perched quietly in the sun, next to the tree with a bench under it where the late Jean Cryor used to sit and watch her grandchildren play.…

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Just call it North White Flint and be done.
posted by Bob
Superb post, Dan! Yes, let's remember that not everyone drives, BUT *everyone* does need transportation. There is a percentage of people who do not own a car. Then there are children, teens, and older folks who don't drive. When you combine the zero-car folks with these others, the combination, while perhaps not a majority, *is* a significant portion of our population. Let's provide these people with a good means of getting around -- and while we're at it, I'm betting that some current "car commuters" will want to join the folks on the bus. (Frankly, I see my transit trips as chances to catch up on my reading or pulling together my thoughts & writing them down --- hard to do when you're stuck in traffic, feeling cranky & cussing!!) Bottom line is this --- as we are expanding, we need to preserve routes for transit.
posted by Tina Slater
(And there are polls on other sites, too. The subject comes up at the planning sessions and neighborhood association debriefings, meetings with the developers, even the walkabouts)
posted by Frank
Yes, i get the joke. Perhaps my comment best belongs on another , earlier post. It was intended to express my frustration over the fact that we keep getting bombarded with "suggestions" and polls by developers and the like, all hyping North Bethesda as the new name for the area currenty known as White Flint. Yet WF usually tops their poll results. So, they try again. There are many developers among the "Friends of White Flint"--- what do thy have to say?
posted by Frank
That's awesome! It sounds like some really great events. I'm going to have to actually get to one of them :)
posted by Mara