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"if we want to allow businesses to operate in residential areas" Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. I have three bakeries and around ten restaur

"if we want to allow businesses to operate in residential areas" Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. I have three bakeries and around ten restaurants within 300m of my current apartment, not counting general stores. I uses to live where there was a handful stores and nothing else, and moving was one of the best things I ever did.

Mikeb85 11y ago
> Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. I have three bakeries and around ten restaurants within 300m of my current apartment, not counting general stores. I also have food businesses within 300m of where I live. There are mixed-use towers downtown. But that's not the same as businesses being inside your apartment building, one door over... You're right though, mixed use neighbourhoods are great. I enjoy them too. I love high-density neighbourhoods in Europe and elsewhere. But many suburbanites hate it. Many apartment dwellers would also be in for a big shock. It's something which isn't really part of our current city planning, and residents get mad when the government changes rules, never mind when neighbours suddenly decide to just flout the rules.
- tamana 11y ago
  Even in suburbia, we are happy with commerce at the mini-downtown at the center of the development, but not right at our bedrooms.
carterehsmith 11y ago
>> Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. Depends. If you are a young, single person without a car, yes, suburbs might not be a great place to live. On the other hand, if you have a family, and can afford it, you look for a neighborhood with good schools and low crime rate. You can pick your bakeries on your way back from work, and you can drive to any restaurant, local or not.
- vidarh 11y ago
  It doesn't have to be either-or. I spent most of my childhood in a small town in Norway. Most of it was suburban. But almost everyone was within 10 minutes walk from a small grocery store, and within 20 minutes walk from downtown which held a couple of small shopping centres, a couple of shopping streets, the train and bus stations. Very few people lived next to any noisy businesses, but everyone lived near shops.

Mikeb85 11y ago

> Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. I have three bakeries and around ten restaurants within 300m of my current apartment, not counting general stores. I also have food businesses within 300m of where I live. There are mixed-use towers downtown. But that's not the same as businesses being inside your apartment building, one door over... You're right though, mixed use neighbourhoods are great. I enjoy them too. I love high-density neighbourhoods in Europe and elsewhere. But many suburbanites hate it. Many apartment dwellers would also be in for a big shock. It's something which isn't really part of our current city planning, and residents get mad when the government changes rules, never mind when neighbours suddenly decide to just flout the rules.

tamana 11y ago
Even in suburbia, we are happy with commerce at the mini-downtown at the center of the development, but not right at our bedrooms.

carterehsmith 11y ago

>> Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. Depends. If you are a young, single person without a car, yes, suburbs might not be a great place to live. On the other hand, if you have a family, and can afford it, you look for a neighborhood with good schools and low crime rate. You can pick your bakeries on your way back from work, and you can drive to any restaurant, local or not.

vidarh 11y ago
It doesn't have to be either-or. I spent most of my childhood in a small town in Norway. Most of it was suburban. But almost everyone was within 10 minutes walk from a small grocery store, and within 20 minutes walk from downtown which held a couple of small shopping centres, a couple of shopping streets, the train and bus stations. Very few people lived next to any noisy businesses, but everyone lived near shops.