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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm all about dense housing which should decrease how much farmland we transition into subdivisions.

Hopefully, it will also create demand for local businesses which make neighborhoods more walkable and thus decrease how much driving we do.

Am I for removing all barriers to development?  No.  But I'm all for businesses near houses.  I'm all for affordable housing next to expensive homes.  I am in favor of really good public schools so that different kinds of people will mix and get to know each other.

Too many NIMBYs who are just negative without being proactive about envisioning the future of our society.  [/quote]

how do you preserve the things that made the neighborhood attractive in the first place  - often ample parking, pristine blocks of original houses, trees, etc? Ie, low density? [/quote]

"Ample parking" is not what makes neighborhoods attractive, and attractive neighborhoods don't have ample parking. Ample parking is what neighborhoods have when people don't want to go there, and one of the reasons they don't want to go there is, usually, the ample parking.[/quote]

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