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About half of the items in that list are satisfied by Peter Cooper Village in NYC.[1] Go there and see if you like it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_Town%E2%80%93Peter_...

You could say the same thing about colonial Williamsburg. The list seems focused on removing restrictions and red tape. It doesn’t dictate form. You could still build a typical single family McMansion in an area that adopted this list… if that’s what you’re into.

Colonial Williamsburg is a theme park.

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