I live in the real world. I could ask these goombas to be nicer, but it would not change their behavior. So what does that mean? Physically remove them?

How would you advocate driving the elderly Italian men and sleepy homeless guys out of the park? Muscular police presence? Violent initial show of force followed by undercover enforcement?

On this sub there is a simultaneous ideological obsession w public spaces that’s combined w a fear and dislike of the types of people who will inevitably congregate in public providence parks.

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I’m not telling her to grow thicker skin, I’m just pointing out that she is not going to use or like the institutions she’s advocating.

If someone doesn’t like neighborhood parks because they are open to the (often not-perfect) members of the public, it’s silly for them to advocate more public parks, especially when there are opportunity costs to establishing said parks.

I held off on responding to your initial "we should give public spaces maintained with taxpayer money to businesses because money and stuff" comment.

But just so you know, it's not a great look telling women to grow a thicker skin when it comes to being harassed by men in public. I'm sure you were unaware, but doing so can make you sound like an ignorant asshole.

Yup and with big storms parking bans can last be ke a few days and we might have a few a month so it sucks to not have off street parking. I complained to the city and they literally said “what kind of an apartment doesn’t have parking l?!”

It's definitely not a solution in and of itself. Though mandating more than 10 would be a good start. Ultimately the city/state/the US as a whole needs to start cutting out the middleman and just start building housing.

As someone who lived in a city with affordable units required in nearly all developments - it’s not really a solution. The waiting list is thousands of people who qualify. Having 10 units in a 100 unit building is lovely, but it doesn’t actually put a dent in the “demand”. Providence needs more and more developments to help stabilize the increases.

Rumors inc. It’s the only place I’ll go for mine

This song sounds like if Super Mario started an alt-rock group. /s

Corner unit for the win

Agreed on all fronts. Housing is good, and I feel like the ship has already sailed on that portion of the West End, to be honest (I've lived around the corner for over ten years). So I'm not really upset about this project. But it has always seemed pretty disingenuous to me to claim that this type of development doesn't push up housing cost in the immediate neighborhoods. Mixed income neighborhoods are great but they tend not to stay that way, for some strange reason...

They said they should have shovels in the ground by the end of this year. Grain of salt of course.

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I had my 21st birthday on the Hill in 200?. I saw Buddy, had my first Martini, and then proceeded to walk in the fountain. No body cared because nobody was there. It was a Friday night in August. The square was empty and the only sound was the bubbling water. Maybe it was midnight. Maybe.

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Yesterday, at around 11am, I'm making the rounds for a dinner party I'm preparing. Pastiche, Venda, Gasbarro's, Roma, Scialo Bros. Bakery. I parked over by Pastiche because the tart needs to be the last thing I pick up since it can't sit in the car while I finish running errands. Trying to walk from Pastiche to Venda, through DePasquale Square was a minefield. There were no "dining al fresco" people at 11am. The waiters from the restaurants were slinging plastic chairs everywhere and one almost hit me as I walked by. There's no clear path through the square. I was bobbing and weaving through a maze of planters and unoccupied tables. Why isn't there a path through the middle? These restaurants survived just fine 20 years ago without expanding their table tops by 100% with out dining. La Dolce Vita always had outdoor dining, but it never expanded to what it is now. It's a little ridiculous.

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I can understand setting aside space for performances and concerts, but to relinquish all of the public park space to private businesses does not make sense. If I was in a wheelchair, I don't think I could have gotten through the park at all.

The phoenix dragon lot rents spots, I think. I feel like there was always a sign for it.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 amen

Hills. That is KEY info.

More housing is good. In the long term, it may drive prices down in Providence as a whole. But in the short term, more projects without affordability requirements (i.e. market rate housing) are going to further gentrify Federal Hill and further displace longtime residents.

When you attract a bunch of people who can pay the high price of new apartments, you also attract businesses that cater to them, and you change the atmosphere of the neighborhood from leaning working class to leaning "young professional" (it's already pretty far in that direction). That attracts more young professionals and further drives up rent.

I'm not saying market rate housing shouldn't be built at all, but so often the urbanist attitude is "this will drive down rent for the city/region in the future" without considering the shorter term effects on the more immediate neighborhood. That's why we need a public developer to build enough affordable housing for all.

We will see. I remember at least two other similar plans for this plot over the last two decades that never came thru.

The article made no mention of a TSA, so I believe that it's not required to include affordable housing.

Thank you

Thank you.

Can't argue with this!

Every license is for protection, okay? Yes, you are right. If you do it yourself, you have full liability for anything that goes wrong. If you hire a professional, they should have insurance and you are covered. Regardless, the truth remains, a license is required by law, no gray area. Physically, yes you can do it. Again for the last time, he is a licensed electrician giving away our work.

I’m not disagreeing with you, but from a licensed electrician ONE it was correct information and TWO he was giving away our work. You would never find a plumber telling you to run your own vent, ever.