Telly Savalas
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Sun Oct-23-05 02:58 PM
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11. There are a wide variety of alternatives to sprawl. |
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The freedom-making solution is to make these options available. As it stands, most new development is guided by public policies which promote sprawl. If a developer wants to vary the slightest from cookie cutter McMansions and strip malls, she's confronted with hostile zoning laws and the lack of infrastructure support. Hence choices are being denied.
As far as high-density housing on transit routes go, it seems to be the case that demand is a helluva lot greater than supply based on the housing costs in large North American cities.
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