Cope favors the advisory team’s conclusion that 20th Street be redesignated as a business and mixed-use corridor blending residential properties with shops and offices rather than the largely residential strip it was before the storm. “Twentieth Street needs to be redeveloped,” she said. “That’s fitting because it’s a busy street.” She was shown photographs of buildings in other cities that create a village look with the storefronts close to the street, apartments on upper floors, and landscaping helping to separate business areas from nearby houses and apartments. “It sounds like they want to consider the neighbors so the neighbors have something pretty to look at too,” she said.
— This is a good idea. I concur. (Via Globe)
