I think we are probably at a point now where this plan is not going to get substantially better or worse. I wish there was another development somewhere that I could point to, make some phone calls and talk to the residents. There isn't. There are no projects to point to in order to say this will work or not, but it is meeting Clive's standards. |
Raising standards with a broad brush is one thing, but you do need to understand all of the technical ramifications which will trickle down through all aspects of development. The hard part for people to grasp is that plans may be just a picture on a piece of paper, but from the other side of the coin, every dot making up every line on that picture equals money. |
That's been Clive's standard since before I got here - trying to be above the bar. We have for the most part during my time tried to incrementally increase the bar as we went along on different projects when we found new materials or better ways of designing. Just about every year that I've been here, we've made edits to the zoning ordinance. |