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Originally Posted by Cirrus
Compare to Vancouver, where growth in the residential areas is easy enough that developers largely leave the commercial streets (shown in green here) alone. It's a weird inversion compared to SF or DC. I'm not sure I necessarily like it better on its own, and it has made single-family houses in Vancouver extraordinarily expensive, but they can accommodate a lot more of the demand this way than we can.
image from google earth |
Developers would certainly not leave those commercial streets alone if they were allowed to. Development is restricted to low-rise to maximize the amount of sunlight on the street.
