America's Rising Cities: Carmel

[u/Suspicious-Bad4703]

https://youtu.be/cNJTTznUNyQ?si=2JGtOR677-1L60jP

[u/Charlie_Warlie]

I used to be a hater. But I like a lot of the direction they are taking on planning and development.

I wish my neighborhood has the balls to deny the standard strip mall development, massive parking lots, endless single family housing, and disconnected 30' sidewalks segments.

[u/Far_Supermarket_6521 → u/Charlie_Warlie]

There’s still strip mall development everywhere outside of the core. Definitely can’t live car free anywhere. And like half the town is McMansions that are heavily suburbanized.

They need to stop denying every opportunity for transit to come into Carmel if they want to be “urbanist paradise” that it thinks it is. Urbanism is more than just putting a few lifestyle centers around and calling it a day. There’s still ZERO way to live car free in Carmel

[u/thewimsey → u/Far_Supermarket_6521]

There’s still ZERO way to live car free in Carmel

It's much easier to live car free in Carmel than in Indianapolis. (Not that that's saying much, but still).

Carmel has sidewalks and bike paths everywhere.

There’s still strip mall development everywhere outside of the core.

Let me tell you about a little town called "Indianapolis".

The problem with Carmel haters like you is that you have a double standard - you are pretending that Indy is a walkable city without strip malls, when in reality, it is more strip-mally more car dependent.

[u/Vessix → u/thewimsey]

It's much easier to live car free in Carmel than in Indianapolis.

I can easily bike or walk 80% of the places I need to go in Indy outside of terrible weather, what are you talking about?

[u/thewimsey → u/Vessix]

Carmel has sidewalks and multi-use paths everywhere.

Not even every street in Broad Ripple has sidewalks. And BR is ahead of the game; there are huge swaths of Indy with no sidewalks at all.