How do apartments keep SS viable?
Can you all help me with how the apartments will keep SS viable? Please connect the dots for me.
Yes, i understand economics and the need for SS to be self sustaining. But how do the apartments help with viability of the town square? Are you thinking that the people in the apartments will patronize the business there? Can this really generate a lot of revenue for them? Do you think the Developer will lower commercial rent rates to make the business more viable?
I think the developer is an entrepreneur, pure and simple; and i don't hold that against them. They will do whatever, to make the most money possible, and if they can start w/ 2nd floor apartments and then little by little turn the entire square into apartments, they will. I gotta believe there is more money to be made on apartment rentals than commercial property.
I think changing the zoning rules for second floor apartments is the proverbial camels nose under the tent.
And yes TV is a very dense population. I am not in favor of making it even more dense. Overcrowding is a quality of life hit. That's one reason towns have zoning laws to begin with. Some towns have 2 acre zoning rules, just for that purpose.
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