Population and Housing

[danbrotherston]

Mid-rise (stacked townhouses or otherwise) as part of any new suburban development can also contribute to density. The cities could even require a certain minimum density for newly-opened land. And apply less-restrictive zoning regulations to that land -- there would be no existing homeowners complaining about that.

Can we start by reducing zoning requirements rather than jumping directly to minimum density? It doesn’t make much sense to require developers to do something when almost everywhere it is illegal to build what we need (including what we might hypothetically require developers to do).

This is on point. But the other problem I see (which is why infill is better) is that very few of our new "sprawl" communities are real communities. At least with infill some of the infill will be in complete communities.

We need a much broader change than just housing form.