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Originally Posted by nec209
If there already was a public transit culture of strong public transit ridership the city planners could of zone higher density. That may explain why cities and suburbs are more dense in Canada.
Where if a area has little to no public transit ridership they will zone low density sprawl.
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That's not what happened. Cities zoned against higher density because that is what developers would have built for otherwise. I can't think of any common example of minimum density zoning, but city zoning books are overflowing with rules to cap density. There would be no need to cap density if there wasn't demand forit, and a logical reason for building it.