They don’t even need high rises—change the 1 story 800sq foot bungalow into a 2 story 4 plex and all the units can have more living space than the original and 4x more people can live somewhere—-but that is banned in most places even
Part of the reason for this is that paid support has been needed for awhile. Prioritizing support for billions of people is very difficult. It's a lot easier if people want to pay that they can priority support.
Cars are a classic "tragedy of the commons" due to how much space they take up and the infrastructure they take up. The places where it might've been 'nice to go for a drive' are not that way anymore because they have changed by everyone having a car. The windy country roads without anyone living on them are now filled with people that 'want to live in the country' but ironically do not because everyone wanted that.
Sports have become way too important in high school. In addition to bad ideas about start times, site selection for schools based on having huge amounts of land for sports fields means far away schools instead of being centrally located near a lot of people so students can walk to school easily.
> $10.4 million to address roadway departure crashes along approximately 50 miles of roadway through shoulder widening, rumble strips and other low-cost treatments.
They including a road widening as 'street safety'. Very generous interpretation of the term.
Houston also had minimum parking requirements. Also, TXDOT literally built highways through the city. It's not JUST zoning, but zoning is a large part of it. Houston does have way lower housing costs than other places though.
Sure children can be trained, but children will still go in the road because they are children. Based on current laws, this is acceptable collateral damage so that cars can go fast.
Every state/local already continually asks for federal handouts to maintain their overbuilt 8 lane roads. The fact that people still want to add lanes to roads is mind boggling.
Truly, micromobility like E-bikes are cheap, require much less space, healthier and are more social. Governments do not know how to build for micromobility yet it seems.
Just curious--what did your national forest look like 200 years ago? In many cases, we are on 2nd or 3rd growth forests in the eastern part of the US, with much of it clear cut multiple times.
It's all about framing--one could say that adding a new format is a new feature and not maintenance just as easily as saying it is maintenance. The problem with calling it maintenance as the author points out, is that people don't understand what that means unless they write software.
My understanding is that in most places taxes would go down for homes. They would go up massively for those with vacant lots or a lot of land in prime areas that is being underutilized, which is why LVT is great.
Even if you do need to make thicker pipes, strength in a metal generally increases with the square of the thickness, so it doesn't cost twice as much in materials to double the strength.