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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
It doesn't make significantly more room for trees as max lot coverage goes way up. Reduced front setbacks reduce the type of trees that large trees are replaced with (if they're even replaced). The remaining space is a small deck between the unit and the garage.
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You're completely missing the point. Of course a 40 story condo building downtown has less trees than a SFH on a quarter acre lot.
Imagine the 500 families living in the 40 story condo building each buying their own house with a yard. Now imagine how much greenfield land got turned into houses to build this development.
The 40 story building had one block worth of sidewalks and roads and driveways. The 500 SFH to replace it would have ~25 blocks worth of roads and sidewalks, and 25 driveways.
Now because we had to build 25 blocks of greenfield, we need more arterial roads extending out to this development, and have more people commuting distances that extend past the 40 story condo, even if it was on the edge of the city.
The math is no different for medium density, just the scale is adjusted. Replacing 2 single family houses with a 6 wide row house with basement suites is 12 families on the land of what was 2, so 10 houses of land and roads that didn't need to get built that can be your green trees or whatever.