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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sighhhhhhh

America so desperately thinks they can plan urban design like Japan, but it will be a disaster because America never plans anything right. For starters, the US doesn't have the infrastructure to be designed like Japan. Our public transport sucks ass. Everyone drives everywhere.

All we are going to get are a bunch of neighborhoods that were designed for SFHs now flooded with townhouses, multiplexes and apartments. You are ging to get a million cars parking on the streets, trash problems, and water problems.  People are still going to drive everywhere.  [/quote]

This is what gets me! In my already dense MD neighborhood there are 3 huge apartment complexes going up with 1 parking space per unit. Most of us don't have driveways and rely on street parking, yet my family of 4 is the only one of all my neighbors with only one car, so i assume parking will become absolutely impossible.

And yet...these apartments aren't being planned as mixed use, they're 100 percent residential and actually displaced the closest walkable corner store type retail. There IS transit, but it's one of those systems where you have to get to the center of town and then take another bus out to get anywhere, which takes forever. So walkability is actually getting worse, and everyone's going to have to jump in their cars to drive on busy roads with no bike lanes for a gallon of milk, and then come home and fight for parking.

We bought our house because we wanted to be LESS car reliant. If you just build it a bunch of really really crowded functional suburbs, it's worse than both city and suburban living. [/quote]

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