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[-] otto@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Keeping all of the trees while also building a 40,000 unit apartment building on the same lot is gonna be a bit of a trick. Unless the building is 30 stories high. That might be normal in New York, but that’s not something you’re gonna see very much outside of the city.

I’m all for vertical city building, but keep in mind what is likely to happen in your local community.

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[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 7 points 1 month ago

But where would we play golf?

[-] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago
[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There isn’t any context on where this is, but:

  • there aren’t enough golf courses to really impact housing supply
  • parks and recreational facilities also serve a societal good assuming they’re accessible and serve the community as a whole
  • golf courses aren’t usually located along transit
[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

There are enough to reduce housing supply issues.

Private golf courses provide little to no benefit to anyone especially after we factor in the environmental costs.

Golf courses not being on pubic transit is the only part I agree with.

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago

I guess that technically counts as a public sex forest then

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lovely weather we're having in Minneapolis this weekend!

Edit: Here, for anyone who didn't get the joke. NSFW

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[-] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

or we could not sacrifice our very limited green space to property developers overlords?!

i'm not saying don't use green space better.. but keep it green.

ps: i live in a very high density area and love it... but build up not out.

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[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wish we'd just do non luxury apartment high rises with underground parking in HCOL areas. Then there is room for green spaces, and more people can be accommodated.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Parking is always expensive, and even more so for underground. The counter argument is that you can build much cheaper without, so the units can be more affordable.

I don’t entirely buy that, since developers could already choose less high end finishing for more affordable units and they usually don’t.

Also, “less parking” is not the same as “no parking” and that hinges on their being useful transit or walkability. I know that’s one of the points of a district like this, but this is why you do need to think big, so that an individual developer can make the choice

See also “transit oriented development”. Boston is one of the cities that has been pursuing that idea. Recently it was extended into the suburbs with new higher density zoning being a requirement for every community served by the regional transit authority

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[-] thisdude1092@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Cause no way in crap would that many people living that close together not cause issues

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