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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We also need to allow zoning for businesses in residential neighborhoods. Think about all the elderly people aging in isolation that don't leave the house as often as they should because it involves driving. If they were able to walk to get their groceries and stop to get coffee every day, it would do wonders for their mental and physical health, as well as have more people in the local community keeping their eye out on them every day. [/quote]

Yes, so many elderly people love walking with their canes, walkers, and wheelchairs to go pick up groceries and coffee and lug it all back home. Sometimes it feels like all of these comments are written by people in their 30’s who have never experienced life with elderly people.[/quote]

+1. What’s funny is that it’s MUCH easier to go to stores, doc offices, grocery stores, etc in the suburbs than in densely packed cities… they are more plentiful, and you just drive straight there & park right outside.

Elderly folks who can’t drive anymore are not walking to stores, as you say. [/quote]

Having lived in both the "much easier" has not been my experience. As for the elderly, my suburban elderly neighbor takes the bus to get groceries. Might be easier for her to walk if it was closer.[/quote]

Having given rides to some when a bus has failed, the experience of hauling groceries and other goods via public transport for the even moderately less able, whether from age or infirmity, is rather burdensome.

Easy in urban environments typically applies to high density with ground-level commercial offering goods and services within a 3-5 block walk (between streets, not avenues, if using NYC as an example, and 5 starts to stretch it).  That is not the vision for current efforts to densify closer-in detached single family home neighborhoods.[/quote]

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