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Originally Posted by JAM
Can someone help me understand why the focus of affordability centered on downtown? Why not Tarrytown, Hyde Park, So Co, Travis Heights or any of these other adjacent communities? that are biking, walking or an easy bus ride away.
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Surely you are not suggesting that there is something contradictory about the same people who oppose downtown towers on the basis of "affordability" then also opposing infill, multi-family, garage apartments, duplexes, etc. in their own neighborhoods?
That said, I would like to see more 600 sqft 1-bedrms and fewer of the 1400 sqft 1bdrs in these new developments. That would get more people downtown, greater diversity, and 15 years from now that 600sf one will be (in context) affordable, while the 1400sf will still be expensive. Also how about some 1000-1200 3bdrms so that a family with a couple kids could actually live there past toddlerhood?