Update: After the February 7th city council public hearing, more details are known regarding the proposed apartments. The first thing to notice is that the apartments are actually comprised of two separate buildings. In addition to better fitting the shape of the lot, this seems to be in an effort to adhere to zoning language… Continue reading Big Bend, Big NIMBY
Kirkwood Gadfly often, almost exclusively, focuses on hypotheticals and things that should happen rather than things that actually are happening. That's for a variety of reasons I guess but mostly its because I don't know anything more than you do. I'm really not sure how other people that are good at this, buildingstlnews.com and nextstl.com,… Continue reading The Madison: A Mid-Summer’s Update
The city-county question has dominated local discussion of fragmentation and subsequent consolidation. Recently, the implications of this conversation has come into more focus. The most likely route to consolidation between the city and county is for St. Louis City to re enter St. Louis County as its 89th municipality [Editors note: I've had to reduce… Continue reading Potential Partners in the Consolidation Game
Kirkwood Park is the crown Jewel of the Kirkwood park system. With tennis courts, baseball fields, playgrounds, forests, pools, an ice rink, a lake and even an outdoor amphitheater it is bears a striking resemblance to a scaled down version of our very own Forest Park in our backyard. While the majority of the park… Continue reading Kirkwood Park Forever
St. Louis is the largest city/metropolitan area without a bike share program. But if the city as a whole can't figure its shit out, maybe a few of its suburbs can. If you scoffed at that last sentence, I understand. Bike-share programs are expensive and to think Kirkwood and Webster could afford to fully fund… Continue reading KirkWeb Bike Share
Meramec Community College's large campus and voluminous student traffic makes for a challenging environment to craft a more walkable neighborhood. With that being said, however, there are steps that can be taken in both the short-term an the long-term to ensure that this stretch of Geyer is not only walkable for the residences that sit… Continue reading College Town
Kirkwood has struggled with parking for as long as it has excelled at attracting people. The mindset amongst Kirkwood's recent political leadership seems to be that if you tear enough buildings down and reserve enough surface area for parking, parking will no longer be an issue. This is true. It true, not because the supply… Continue reading Paid Parking: A Case to be Made
Kirkwood Road is the eye of the hurricane that is Kirkwood. Around it the rest of Kirkwood, especially downtown Kirkwood, revolves, taking its energy and spinning that energy ever further outward. Just because Kirkwood Road is doing its job, however, doesn't mean that, given ideal conditions, it can't further organize, coalesce, and strengthen. Step One… Continue reading Kirkwood Road Re-Imagined
According to Walkable City (p.155), transit works when you get four factors right regardless of scale: urbanity, clarity, frequency and pleasure. Urbanity essentially meaning that the route has walkable, significant, urban attractions at both ends; Clarity refers to the idea that routes should be easy to comprehend and visualize. Frequency is pretty self explanatory but… Continue reading Kirkwood-Webster Shuttle
