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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
So what's the solution? Build more inner city density? Sure, it's increasing, but people still want the SFH with the garage and the yard.
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One possible and partial solution that I would like to see is to look at creating mini-downtowns, or at least, further concentrating business/commercial parks out on the periphery. Part of the problem is that as downtown gets more and more dense with offices, more and more people are travelling into and out of the core, and that puts a huge strain (inefficiently, since the roads are in heavy use for only a few hours a day) on transport infrastructure. Adding residential density close in is one way to help, but moving commercial density out is another.
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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
I can see more efficient houses, better planning, better transit, more fuel efficient vehicles, less water (resource intense) living, better use of resources, keeping people shopping within their communities, but not giving up the SFH. It's going to be a long time until that culture changes.
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Specific to that, I would like to see far more small commercial developments within communities and accessible by secondary roads that link neighborhoods directly. The fetish for controlling access to communities is great for traffic engineers, but has the side-effect of compartmentalizing and constraining people to always take the same path to the same places. A bit of chaos is good for people.