“The last new building that was acceptable and necessary (my house) was completed four months ago, right when I moved here. Yet ever since, the township keep...

“The last new building that was acceptable and necessary (my house) was completed four months ago, right when I moved here. Yet ever since, the township keep…

  • SerinusEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    I’m one of them.

    Build mass transit. The high density housing will come.

    “One more lane” ain’t gonna fix it.

    • blarghlyEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      This is… not true. At all. High density housing creates the conditions necessary for transit to be useful. There is already demand for higher density housing all over the place, and typically the reason it isnt built is because:

      1. The government prohibits it.

      or

      1. Building low density housing is cheaper because the government subsidizes the construction and maintenance of roads, utilities, and services.

      or

      1. Land owners only sell land in desirable areas where there is demand for high density housing at extremely inflated prices because they are able to speculate on the price of land, which makes building high density housing more expensive.

      Of course, if you build a train to the middle of a corn field and then sell the land to whoever the fuck, they will tend to build an apartment building there. But almost always, these are terrible places to live. It’s a mass produced apartment in the middle of a corn field. And there is no reason to build train tracks into corn fields when we can simply allow and encourage infill development in areas that are already nearby

      • SerinusEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        It’s a mass produced apartment in the middle of a corn field.

        One of the best places I’ve lived, Auth Rd. in Suitland, MD, a three minute walk from the DC metro. We could hear taps playing from Andrews AFB on a clear night.