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What you’re saying is that suburbs shouldn’t exist. That everything should either be 100% urban or 100% rural. I don’t know which black-and-white world you think you’re living in, but this ain’t it.
That’s what I’m saying. Development should have been incremental and contiguous to cities and towns’ existing footprints. Farmland and wilderness should have been left alone. It’s never too late to adopt new growth guidelines that would grow true population centers in a healthy way while not further raping the outlying areas. And whoever disagrees need look no further than the mirror to find a contributor to the traffic problem.
Here’s more of the same type of destructive development proposal.
No one is saying don’t build high density in density zones. But young families continue to buy in the suburbs in spite of rising costs. You can build all kinds of density on the peninsula, it’s not going to decrease the demand for the suburbs with single family homes.
No one is saying don’t build high density in density zones. But young families continue to buy in the suburbs in spite of rising costs. You can build all kinds of density on the peninsula, it’s not going to decrease the demand for the suburbs with single family homes.
I believe increased density in high-density spots will decrease the demand for the suburbs on a relative basis; that is, out of every 100 households seeking housing, the percentage of those 100 households that opt for density over suburbia will increase, and the percentage of those 100 households opting for the suburbs will decrease. There aren’t enough high-density options for purchase at affordable prices right now for that to be happening currently. Stay tuned. And btw, I’m glad to see your comment about the available space on the peninsula to go high density, because there are gobs of it, in some areas more so than in others obviously.
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Think where this region would be if that mentality had won out. Poor planning is the culprit. Poor planning is American.
Wasnt a monorail proposed in Charleston about a decade or two ago? It was to relieve traffic on I-26...If I recall correctly it died a death equivalent to being strangled underwater while being stabbed and then shot. I can only imagine if you proposed such a thing now if the mentality is what you say it is...
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