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Originally Posted by Armybrat
If they can get the road issues resolved, then why not build highrise office buildings out there?
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We should not be encouraging yet more jobs to sprawl out to car-dependent locations on the fringe -- whether you "resolve" the roads into a 10-lane freeway or not.
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Decentralize the density.
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A major reason for density, other than minimizing land use, is that it centralizes things. Whether it be the center of the city, or a smaller district with a variety of uses clustered around a rail stop, the point is to bring things close together. A tower standing alone out along some highway is just sprawl with a little less impervious cover.
Oak Hill does not seem to be well-suited as a site for one of those smaller districts, either -- the area is environmentally sensitive, and the transit connections are minimal (especially as the work side of a commute).