The issue I have with this plan is if you drive around any town or city that is plenty of vacant housing. Don’t build more and create more waste. Use and renovate what is already there.
The issue I have with this plan is if you drive around any town or city that is plenty of vacant housing. Don’t build more and create more waste. Use and renovate what is already there.
It may be vacant because it is the wrong scale or type of housing for the area, or it may be more-or-less uninhabitable for various reasons. All this is correctable, at least by rebuilding the lots if remodeling is insufficient.
I agree, there is no call for sprawling new tracts when in-filling existing towns is such a better investment, from the public perspective. Local zonings and codes in too many places discourage and even effectively prohibit, the patterns of densifying development that would serve them best, *in favor of* sprawl patterns that are more profitable for developers, but set up longer-term liabilities for the jurisdiction.
The issue I have with this plan is if you drive around any town or city that is plenty of vacant housing. Don’t build more and create more waste. Use and renovate what is already there.
any town? not where I live in NJ.
It may be vacant because it is the wrong scale or type of housing for the area, or it may be more-or-less uninhabitable for various reasons. All this is correctable, at least by rebuilding the lots if remodeling is insufficient.
I agree, there is no call for sprawling new tracts when in-filling existing towns is such a better investment, from the public perspective. Local zonings and codes in too many places discourage and even effectively prohibit, the patterns of densifying development that would serve them best, *in favor of* sprawl patterns that are more profitable for developers, but set up longer-term liabilities for the jurisdiction.