Larkspur residents might find this video of great interest. Back in the 1990s East Portland conducted a grand "transit oriented development" experiment - putting in light rail and imagining burgeoning "vibrant, walkable" communities. Decades later here is the reality...
A longtime East Portland resident reads through the visioning documents from the 1990s which sound a lot like the Larkspur "Station Area Plan" and compares the reality with the vision...
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