Comments by "SHROOMY" (@shroomyesc) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. For visuals and the health of having less cars in cities I'd like to be able to say yes let's get rid of them, but as someone who recently this summer lost the ability to walk normally, screw parking garages. I have to get from home to where I'm going door to door somehow and I need to do that with my own car unless the state is willing to pay for taxis for everybody or something of such sort, but that's not a good solution either.
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  2. I'm in that kind of situation. I can't get the plaque for my car but most days I cannot walk outside without aid, so parking garages are hell to use since there's usually a distance from the car to the exit, then going up to surface level and then walking to your destination. I used to barely ever street park in front of businesses (to save money and hassle), now I have to do it all the time.
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  3. I don't personally understand the reason for why zoning exists in the first place outside of separating residential areas from industry for obvious reasons such as noise, pollution and well ugliness. However outside of that it just feels natural to me that you can have a block of flats next to a house next to a kiosk next to a bar next to a house next to a grocery store next to an office etc. Or for businesses to exist in the bottom floors of ~3-10 floor blocks of flats.
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  4. The distance from shops thing isn't irrelevant if you can't walk well or at all, it's still (usually) the walk from the car to the exit point, some stairs, then an elevator, then some long hallway before you're out on street level and nowhere close anymore to where you were originally going. I recognize most people are able to walk, but as someone who very recently became physically disabled to an extent using city centre parking garages is just hell.
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  5.  Ginger  Wut... Where did I pretend I was American? What else would I call it besides a grocery store?
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  6. Whenever I think of HOAs I think of lawns for the sake of having lawns. For real. What's wrong with a garden? People genuinely have brainworms that the existence of a non native plant that wants to die without constant watering when it's repeatedly cut raises the value of property to them.
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