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Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by KptMarchewa on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:57PM (#27450995)
>A realistic parking minimum should be 2.5 spots per townhouse.

A realistic approach in the face of coming climate doom would be max 0.5, for the people that really need cars as primary transport due to disability etc.

Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by maxsilver on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:01PM (#27451041)
In theory sure, but that's not realistic, it just induces sprawl.

Great, you manage to artificially limit parking. So the new housing development moves another 10 miles outside of town, to get away from your artificial limit, and now their mowing down a cornfield out there instead for their build, so they can get the parking residents actually need.

If cities want to be a solution to climate change, they have to let people actually live in them. That means, they have to care about the price points of developments (they can't just keep deflecting and saying "luxury housing lowers prices in 50+ years when it trickles down") and they have to care about supporting residents actual transportation needs. (they can't just hide behind "everyone will bike or whatever").

Everytime they deflect on either of those, another farm or forest gets razed instead.

Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by pempem on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:22PM (#27454071)
^ So accurate!

Los Angeles is suffering from this. Towers and towers of expensive apartments left empty at 4000+/mo meanwhile the homeless population grows and the population on the border of homelessness grows.

Traffic increases as people move out of the city center and need to commute in and then those people are taxed through congestion charges or tolls and provided with no, or tremendously expensive, parking.

The whole effort seems to conspire against exactly what made the city a city. Dense, mixed zoned, mixed class living

Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:43PM (#27451514)
I’m not opposed to people who want to live out in the boonies, but given the extra cost of infrastructure to service them, they should have to pay for the privilege.

They never do though. It’s always the poor neighborhoods close in that subsidize the rich people in the suburbs.

Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by bendbro on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:50PM (#27451594)
There is no extra infrastructure cost.
Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:28PM (#27452051)
Longer roads, longer sidewalks, longer water and sewer pipes. Longer electric and phone cabling. Of course it costs more.
Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by nathanaldensr on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:49PM (#27454942)
You have no idea what you're talking about. Towns in the boonies don't fund themselves the same way as cities, nor do they provide the same level of public utilities and services. Many small towns only provide electrical service and basic copper phone service--no water, sewer, high-speed internet, etc.
Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by jjav on Thursday June 10, 2021 @11:00PM (#27468836)
> Longer roads, longer sidewalks, longer water and sewer pipes.

Digging a trench for that new pipe out in boonies over a dirt field can be done in an afternoon by one guy with a backhoe. Putting in the same length of pipe underground in Manhattan will probably take a decade and astronomical amount of money.

Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by bendbro on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @05:19PM (#27453364)
When you live in the boonies, utilities are provided for by the local municipality. Water is usually well water. Waste goes to a septic tank.

There is no additional infrastructure cost placed on cities. You are just plain wrong.

Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:32PM (#27455721)
The suburbs in my area are all served by the local city. I’m not talking about rural areas.
Re:If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pens... by bendbro on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:23PM (#27456028)
Ah, your original comment said "boonies" which denotes rural areas far outside of a city.