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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unironically. 
Most of you will hate this but I don’t care. We all need to suck it up and move into the 21st century, 25 years too late.

No more tweaking around the edges with low-level zoning reform or a few more metro stops or buses here and there. We need a broad scale systematic urban planning overhaul that completely eliminates single family zoning anywhere inside the Beltway.

Single family zoning is simply unsustainable. We can’t grow our economy if we don’t have new residents and we can’t have new residents if we don’t have homes. And if we don’t have more homes near better, reliable transit, then everyone will be more miserable stuck in traffic and less productive at work and less economically competitive. We need to completely eliminate suburban sprawl. The 1950s planned communities need to stay in the past. In a perfect world we’d move everyone closer in to promote re-wilding of our exurbs.

Nobody should be living in a single family suburban home and drive an SUV. It should be either urban, dense multi family dwelling walkable 15-minute neighborhoods, or rural homesteads, preferably using their land for organic family farming and solar fields and green spaces.

If it weren’t for American “but muh freedumb!” selfish ideology, I guarantee we would all have a much higher quality of life with less traffic, less stress, stronger communities, less obesity, and a better economy.

Bring on the YIMBY revolution. [/quote]

DC GDP:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DCNGSP

Seems historically robust and growing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Increased urbanization has lots of downside: fewer greener spaces, pollution, increased crime (not a fear, but rather a fact), waste disposal problems and god forbid if we have another pandemic. A dense, urban space spreads disease faster.

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Urbanization allows for more green space and lowers pollution.[/quote]

It can, but it can also make it worse.  You’d have to have a pretty comprehensive plan to see if that pencils out, but you don’t.[/quote]

You can spread people out or put them together. The latter leaves more space for green and lower transportation and other pollution.[/quote]

You are just saying wishful words, which seems typical.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00026-w

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-01-29-expert-comment-urbanisation-s-role-climate-crisis-being-overlooked

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278265[/quote]

Sounds like degrotg. Anyhoo, one of tour links said "If humanity continues to build cities in the same way we have over the past century — [b]low density,[/b] energy and material intensive — more raw materials will be required than the planet can sustainably provide."

Like I said:You can spread people out or put them together. The latter leaves more space for green and lower transportation and other pollution.
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So we need DC to allow many more and taller buildings, and the same within about a half mile of Metros in urban areas like Downtown Bethesda and Downtown SS (and like exist in Tysons, etc.), concentrating infrastructure investment in those few places for greatest efficiency/effect.  Plan dense combo job center, retail and housing where that is easiest, in greenfield areas, and connect those with well funded public transportation infrastructure, also most easily incorporated as part of greenfield development.  Keep the green spaces and the spacing we have which allows that in non-urban environments...[i]like the suburbs[/i].  Got it.[/quote]

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