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Originally Posted by e909
Most likely ones 40 minutes out of town in some "estates" that has about 12 houses with 3 acres each... but that really isn't a problem because it's cost prohibitive.
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What seems to be a bigger problem is inner city neighbourhoods get filled with empty nesters, no kids, so the schools close, and so it goes, so new families due to housing cost, and lack of schools are forced to keep moving into the outskirts of the city, growing and growing those outskirts. What would be better would be to immediately upzone portions, and these can be very well thought out in advance portions, of existing communities as soon as the schools get to a certain percentage of capacity, to ensure the neighbourhoods can at least have the bare minimum kids to keep the schools going before the empty nesters are gone and the cycle can repeat.
I wouldn't have a problem if a neighbourhood built as single family residential, get's partitioned so as the need arises it eventually becomes 1/4 SFR, 1/4 townhousing, 1/4 low rise apt, and 1/4 highrise, creating living opportunities for all economic portions of society*. If this had always been done, then in even 100 yr old neighbourhoods right near downtown, one could live in a stately old house, townhouse, or apartment, depending on what they can afford**, and have a sustained school in the neighbourhood as well.
I actually kinda just made that all up on the fly, but I'd appreciate comments.
* including as well a percentage of affordable housing in all 4 types (included as part of the last 3 types, and the city could buy a few big SFR and partition into apartments)
** And the partitions would be zoned as such and therefore would be priced according to what is built, not what *can* be built, Ie the single family quarter of the neighbourhood would remain zoned R1, where as the other portions would be zoned to what they're intended to have built upon them.
This way you'd have neighbourhood after neighbourhood on the way from downtown with a very varied and interesting built landscape.