This group started their report-out with barriers:
- financial incentives misaligned
- leases for mixed use occupancy not optimized
- code & policy barrier to innovation
- NIMBYism, and the lack of "comps" -- precedents, and examples of what it would look/be like, and the need for a "model block," which the City of Oakland among others is encouraging.
- presumed vs actual demand
Components (a sampling -- the ideas are flying fast!):
High-tier
- shared vision (including vision of future flexibility, change in dependency over time)
- viable financial model
- relationships (to sister blocks, greenbelts, regional agriculture, etc)
Mid-tier
- diversity (financial and cultural)
- needs to feel good, be beautiful
- light and air
Basic- tier
- walkable
- services
- interaction
- balanced systems, balanced metabolism
- connectivity