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Originally Posted by laniroj
Yep, categorically wrong. There is a massive scarcity of land in Denver. TakeFive seems to think that just because land is vacant, it means it has a willing seller and appropriate zoning. Not to mention, most of the land he probably thinks is developable is old industrial ground likely not suitable for residential due to the decades of contamination his generation poured into the ground - at least not suitable unless you spend many millions removing the soil, pumping out and treating the groundwater and then taking it all to the hazardous waste dump - haha, that's super cheap to do, just look at Gates!
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That’s some twisted logic. All land is owned. By that measure, upzoning every corner if the city would still leave you with land owned by someone, with the same “scarcity”issues.
As for for mitigation, im not even sure what you’re saying. Are you saying we need the neighborhoods to be rezoned since it’ll be cheaper to build there?
Finally I’ll repeat it once again, many if the areas being singled out already have existing row houses and such. It’s not going to be the magic bullet you think it will. Are they gonna pay millions for old row houses only to build new row houses in their place? Come on.