Thanks to everyone who wrote to, spoke at, or registered an opinion at the CARPC meeting last night.
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/269236 The WSJ seems to frame the issue as: "Environmentalists encourage walkable, dense development that will reduce automobile pollution. Developers respond by saying that forcing certain densities will increase the cost of housing, drive Dane County workers to live in other counties and lengthen automobile commutes." Of course, what the developers seem to neglect to mention is that the higher cost of housing in higher densities is often due to a lack of supply of high density neighborhoods. The real demand for higher density housing is highlighted in a recent report at http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/narsgareport2007.html . Most notably, 80% of Americans prefer redeveloping our older existing urban and suburban areas rather than building new housing and commercial development at the edges of existing suburbs. Also, developers seem to overlook the fact that when densities are high enough, savings in transportation costs outweigh the increase in housing costs. [ see graph on page 5 of http://www.nhc.org/pdf/pub_heavy_load_10_06.pdf ] _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
