[StBernard] Duany plans

[Westley Annis]

> This seems simply like having  champagne taste on a beer budget for

most...so my guess would be that the beer drinkers have to move on!!!

CLM



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> Having read a lot of your comments and impressions on the Duany 

> presentation, it calls to mind those high fashion (haute couture) 

> European shows were models come down the runaway with outfits that 

> make the audience react (good and bad reactions). And then six month 

> later you see some of those design features (maybe it's the ruffles, 

> maybe it's length of the skirts), but a toned down version that 

> appeals to the public and practical to wear and affordable is what 

> hits the stores. And that is what the public actually buys and wears.

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> Creative and artistic people go for the WOW factor. So when you see 

> the Duany rendering of the parish and it looks like Eden Isles with 

> blue water lagoons and canals all over and plots of open green space, 

> and you try to figure out how would that work, what would that cost, 

> how does it look when it's brown stormwater runoff,not blue lake 

> water, etc. keep in mind that the concept has to have WOW and is intended

to spark discussion and debate.

> Implementation tends to tone things down. I have yet to see an 

> architect's or planner's conceptual rendering built that way in the 

> end. Guess that's why I'm an engineer. I start asking about 

> practicality, feasibility, costs, etc.before my creative juices can start

spewing.

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> So realize that the creative renderings are to get our minds to think 

> outside the box, but in the end the practicality, feasibility, costs, 

> timeframe, legalities, and politics will flesh out what the citizens 

> will buy which is what private developers and the government will 

> fund. It's market driven, just like fashion.

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> Deborah Keller