Make communities and cities navigable without requiring a car. High traffic means more customers, more residents and more tourists, but large traffic volumes mean finding parking is a pain, the roads are packed and the flow of traffic becomes deadlocked. Parking is a double-edged sword for our cities. Air pollution and noise pollution have long-term health consequences, none of them positive. By failing to design walkable neighborhoods with adequate transit connections, we have condemned ourselves to dirtier air and a louder environment. Our noise pollution comes from that traffic as well. According to the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District, 70 percent of the region’s air pollution comes from motor vehicle traffic. Every property should be sold with a warning saying that these homes are dangerous to your health because the neighborhoods can’t be safely or reliably walked or biked. If we are serious about the dangers of the health risks of our unwalkable cities, we should slap a surgeon general’s warning on every apartment, condo and house in neighborhoods with poor walkability. Which means traffic, pollution, noise and all the nightmarish parking problems that naturally follow as we all take to the road. Is there any question as to why people drive everywhere now? We have singularly failed to provide adequate public transit, even to a large sporting event, which we know that tens of thousands of people will attend. Public transit, on the other hand, will take you roughly two hours. Do you want to go to a Padres game? Driving will take you 40 minutes from Escondido to get to Petco Park. You want to go on a date? Well, you’d better have a car otherwise there is nowhere you can get to, and moreover, you’ll need it to prove to your date that you’re financially self-sufficient.

You want to work? You need a car to ensure you can get there in any sort of timely manner. To even participate in Californian society, you need to own a car in most cities and towns. Anything less is abandoning our future for today’s convenience. We must make walkable, bikeable and transit-accessible cities.

If California wishes to be the state that makes the path going forward, to be an example for others to follow, then we must start working today on that solution. Our cities are unwalkable, unbikeable and downright dangerous for anyone who either does not, or chooses not, to drive. Not all Archetype currently have any Variants, but that will probably change.Walters is a student majoring in urban planning at Palomar Community College and a veteran.

Variant: a terrain that is visually different from the Standard version of the Archetype, especially one that is meant to represent the same kind of thing.

Grassland is the standard terrain of flat.

Standard: a terrain that is the typical and original representative of an Archetype.

Forests, Villages, and Bridges use overlays. Usually the upper layer is meant to appear taller than the ground. The upper layer doesn't fill the hex and/or is partially transparent. Or more specificly the upper graphic of such a terrain.

Overlay: A terrain with graphics are built from multiple layers.

Also a proposed system for creating more varied MV/Def values without creating more Archetypes.

Modifier: A visbile Modification to a Terrain that also modifys MV and/or Def values.

Letter: A single or multi character combination that designates a unique terrain.

Hybrid: a terrain with MV/Def values that are created from 2 or more archetypes.

Basic Terrain: See Standard or Archetype.

Base Layer: The graphic that is rendered at the bottom of a Overlay Terrain.Base Terrain: A terrain referenced by an Alias.If a Terrain Modifier system was implemented some Archetypes would be replaced by Modifiers. Terrain Archetypes do not appear directly in the game, but are the concepts behind all visible terrains. Archetype: A fundimental kind of terrain with unique MV/Def values.Alphabet: all possible character or character combinations that can designate distinct terrains.Other combinations are possible but not recommended. For instance Bridges use Best MV, Best Def, while other terrains use Worst MV, Best Def. Advanced Aliases: a system that can provides a unit with MV/Def values by different means.A terrain may be Aliased to multiple terrains. Alias: a terrain withMV/Def values that are derived from another terrain(s).This list is provided to allow everyone to use the same words to mean the same thing. Discussions of changes or improvements to the terrain engine are often hindered by the fact that people often use the same terms to mean very different things.

Unwalkable meaning