re: #155 calochortus

Yup.
You can make a case for high density housing since you’d have more people per unit of land, and there are a bunch of suggestions that high density housing should be located near transit, but if the transit doesn’t run frequently, doesn’t go where you need to, and doesn’t connect with anything else, you can be as close to transit as you want and you still won’t be able to use it.

High density housing strains all municipal services: natural gas, water, sewer, electricity, garbage collection, schools, transportation, traffic control and the ever popular parking. Throwing up buildings with no plan for the required infrastructure creates more problems than it solves. China has some experience in this matter. It encouraged rural residents to come to the cities for work, but made no plans for housing their families or educating their children. So, migrant workers leave their kids and spouses behind and maybe get to come home once or twice a year. The rapidly expanding national rail network is at least making transportation quicker and more efficient.