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There's no conflict between 'quiet retail' and 'active uses.' Any sort of hard goods retail would qualify as an active use in my book, whether that's selling clothes or widgets or groceries. Those aren't really inherently noisy things.

As much as I might disagree with the idea that a restaurant and patio would be a bad idea on that corner, I can at least understand the objections to it from the neighbors across the street. I don't think that should give them veto power over retail tenants, but I understand their angst about it.

So lots of retail could be there while achieving both goals of being active, yet being quiet.

There are other types of uses that would be quiet, but not that active - like a bank branch, or a doctor/dentist office, etc.

Likewise, is daycare really that quiet of a use? Kids are loud. Daycare involves lots of drop-offs at early hours.

I read the desire for quiet retail as 'we don't want late night restaurants next door.'

by Alex B. on May 30, 2012 2:39 pm • link • report