“The last new building that was acceptable and necessary (my house) was completed four months ago, right when I moved here. Yet ever since, the township keep…
I guarantee there are people that do think this.
The kind of people that demand an HOA
The kind of people who run for HOA president.
In my city, these people are trying to make the argument that building houses is bad for the orcas. What’s infuriating is that it seems to be working.
Any excuse. The real thing they’re thinking “I’ve got mine, now everybody else F-off and die already.”
I’m one of them.
Build mass transit. The high density housing will come.
“One more lane” ain’t gonna fix it.
This is… not true. At all. High density housing creates the conditions necessary for transit to be useful. There is already demand for higher density housing all over the place, and typically the reason it isnt built is because:
- The government prohibits it.
or
- Building low density housing is cheaper because the government subsidizes the construction and maintenance of roads, utilities, and services.
or
- Land owners only sell land in desirable areas where there is demand for high density housing at extremely inflated prices because they are able to speculate on the price of land, which makes building high density housing more expensive.
Of course, if you build a train to the middle of a corn field and then sell the land to whoever the fuck, they will tend to build an apartment building there. But almost always, these are terrible places to live. It’s a mass produced apartment in the middle of a corn field. And there is no reason to build train tracks into corn fields when we can simply allow and encourage infill development in areas that are already nearby
I’ll be damned. For some reason, I always thought that McSweeney’s was Canadian…but no, it’s American. Huh.
searches
Maybe I was thinking of The Beaverton.
And, presumably, if their town were actively shrinking, they’d also be upset.
I’d actually like more towns, further out, with better connectivity between them.
China’s highspeed rail for instance, is mostly to get rural workers to urban jobs … allowing them to adapt to employment surges.
China’s highspeed rail for instance, is mostly to get rural workers to urban jobs
X to doubt
https://youtu.be/nv0kaBmUZJw?t=4907
High speed rail is a method of internal migration, as is living at the factory. It’s so rural people can get around their Hukou designation, and make money they couldn’t in a small town.
move to china my man
It’s always so cool when the subject of the article shows up in the comments.
I don’t live close in to a capital city. Wanting more satellite towns means more housing options closer to me…
…dumbass.
Yeah, for sure. Build a lot of houses in small satellite towns near your town, just not in your town. You’ve got that nice small-town vibe and you wouldn’t want to ruin that by becoming like one of those “capital cities.” I can see clearly how you differ from the subject of the piece and why I’m a dumbass for conflating you.
