Justice
3 Sizes Fit All: Norfolk's Downtown, Urban, and Suburban Designations
Easing revitalization by placing the city's neighborhoods into one of three groups.
It may be overly simplistic, but boiling a neighborhood down to its very basic characteristics is something we do all the time. If you're surrounded by tall buildings or Main Street shopping, you're probably downtown. If you're driving down block after block of single-family homes, you're probably in a suburban area. But in many cities, the zoning codes that determine land use are terrible at noticing and responding to these very different conditions.
This has long been the case in Norfolk, Virginia, especially when it comes to parking.