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  • Parking lots waste a lot of area that could be green space too.

    But yes overdevelpment could be a problem , but is easily fixed by adding a green space rule to development. Like we have now for minimum parking and such.

    Also high speed roads destroy a lot of green space too, with nothing in the median or a good chunk on either side, and huge empty areas in dead zones of interchanges.

    Lets not think cuurent car use is good for green space.



  • I dont mean throw out zoning entirely, but reducing the way they promote single family housing only. I live in a county with a million people and 84% of the land is single family zoning only, I want to throw that bit out.

    Also if done right you dont need to zoning for all those things. Transit development will drive denser, walkable areas all on its own if its legal to build those kinds of areas. All the city has to do it manage transit as these areas develop.


  • I’m not disagreeing with that, but high speed rail from Boston to Miami would be extremely practical. Efficient, fast, convient travel along that corridor reducing dependence on cars for city to city travel. And the area has both the demand and density to support such projects.

    And while its impractical now, if it was built to cheapen regional travel in the region it could grow to high use spurning economic development.

    I’d love to take a train at a reasonable pace from near to DC to my family in Pittsburgh, or to visit New York.

    I might even enjoy a cross country trek to the rockies for skiing on a train, but it’s never going to be an option.