> Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. I have three bakeries and around ten restaurants within 300m of my current apartment, not counting general s

> 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.