Find an idea for the old Blacksburg Middle School
By Donna Dunay
“The development [of the old Blacksburg Middle School property] would be buffered from neighbors behind by a 4-acre public park called The Dell.” That sentence in an Oct. 31 news article (“Developers present vision for old Blacksburg Middle School”) is not only misleading, but also a potent indicator of what is important to the developer and apparently to town council, planning commission and town planners.
Dunay is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Virginia Tech architecture professor. She lives in Blacksburg’s 16 Squares.
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I would love to “read more”, as the teaser invites me to do, but the link to the rest of the article is not working.
Comment by Yet Another John — November 11, 2012 @ 3:32 pm
The link has been repaired. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Comment by C. Trejbal — November 13, 2012 @ 10:44 am
Blackburg can have very high quality development and avoid urban sprawl into our
beautiful countryside if we just ask the developers for it. We need to allow stacked density of 120 to 150 bedrooms per acre which is much higher than our exisiting RM 48 density in the downtown districts. The walk traffic will benefit the downtown merchants with business and will keep cars out of the downtown drive zones. Oposition to planned development for the pure sake of oposition to natural growth will only drive the tax burdon higher for school system costs.Student leasing of private housing will only continue to degrade our historical districts. Please attend planning meetings like the one today at 4 and ask the developers for quality growth and the elected officials for higher planned densities.
Comment by Ray Roberts — November 13, 2012 @ 2:11 pm
Yep, you folks in Blacksburg should design and only allow certain bussness to build there. You did such a good job on that latest little shopping area that is 50% vacant. Thanks to some of the faculty wives that expert in almost all fields. You go gal.
You tell those business folks how to do it.
Comment by Jim Overfelt — November 17, 2012 @ 11:28 am