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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the developer is finally starting the missing middle building on our street.  It will have four 3 bed apartments and two 2 bed apartments.  If three people live in the 3 beds and two people in the 2 beds, that's 16 people on a lot where 4 people had lived and three parking spaces where there had been a garage and a long driveway.    [/quote]

You would think people would clue into the fact that its rarely the building itself, or the people that live in that that are the problem. But rather the cars that come with them that is the problem.

When the transportation model negatively impacts the housing model, maybe its time to rethink transportation, no? [/quote]

Do you want to extend metro to every SFH neighborhood where missing middle is planting apartment buildings? [/quote]

Fortunately there are more than two transportation options (car, Metro) in the world. It might be time for you to rethink transportation, too.[/quote]

Lets say I'm a missing middle family that snags an apartment down the street from my house. Right now I drive to work and it's about a half hour each way. If I took the bus then metro then another bus, I'd spend that long just waiting for connections. If I biked, I'd be in awesome shape, but it would be about 50 miles a day and I'd have to get creative since the most direct routes are bike free roads. How does rethinking transportation work when you're going from a suburban location to a job 20+ miles away? Even if you buy near where you work (I did years ago), job changes happen and this region has employment centers that are nowhere near each other [/quote]

Part of rethinking transportation includes: recognizing that most of the trips made by families are NOT the commute to and from work.[/quote]

Fine, but people still need to commute and for in office employees that 10 trips per worker. Even a 2 day in hybrid schedule if 4 trips a week. [/quote]

Ok? And so? [/quote]

you aren't getting rid of cars [/quote]

How did we get from

-there are more than 2 transportation options (car, Metro) in the world

-you aren't getting rid of cars

Nobody is telling you that you can't drive your car to work.

On the other hand, it would be bonkers to say, "It's most convenient for me to go to the office by car, therefore it should not be legal to build multi-family housing near where I live."[/quote]
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Developers are arguing parking is not necessary.[/b] Anyone who has ever lived in the suburbs knows you need cars. Tell me, how does your family living in a missing middle development in the middle of a suburban neighborhood get anywhere without cars? [/quote]

Oh, are they? Or are they arguing that they should have the [u]option[/u] of providing on-site parking, instead of being [u]require[/u]d to provide on-site parking?

Do you live in the suburbs? How many cars does your household have? Where do you park them?

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Yes, three and in our garage and driveway [/quote]

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