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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2510804, member: 716"] Agree on the last part - the city and local neighborhood group really failed, in my opinion, in extracting decent community benefits from the developer. Continuous sidewalks and maybe a bike lane (though the cross street is really narrow) should have been a must. Anyway, market forces are skewed by the public incentives, even more so by the truly unique and awful competing IDAs in the city and county. As shan noted, the city didn't think this project deserved public help, so the developer turned around and got help from the county. The county will throw money at any unworthy project. Unless there's some huge public benefit coming out of a future project, there needs to be a moratorium on tax breaks and incentives for these new-build furnished student projects. [/QUOTE]