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Originally Posted by Corndogger
It would be ideal if they could figure out a way to keep communities vibrant all of the time. Maybe they need to have much more flexible zoning. What I'm getting at is new communities from the start would be designed to allow for various types of housing and businesses from Day 1 to prevent people from complaining about changes to the neighborhood. For example, SFH and 20+ story condo towers could be allowed to coexist if that's the way the market moved. If someone didn't like that they could move to an existing community that had more strict zoning laws. I don't think this would result in planning "disasters." Market forces and demographics would likely result in orderly transitions within neighborhoods.
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Yeah I think earmarking a portion (1/4?) of a new community as 'high density', even if the initial build is low density so that there's no surprises, similar to when 'parks' are actually earmarked for future schools.
Or maybe splitting the community into 4 numbered quarters, each for future high density but for example quarter #2 would only become eligible for high density once quarter #1 is 75% redeveloped or something. Either way, the idea is to have focused quick and intense redevelopment in bite sized chunks rather than over a large area over a long period of time.
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