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Is that unique to the bay area though? It's been a few years since I was there but to seem I recall some larger high rise buildings. Smaller apartment blocks (

• vidarh 10y ago
  The Bay Area is very diverse. What residents would object to varies accordingly. > Smaller apartment blocks (3 stories etc) doesn't have to come at the expense of the lifestyle either - the large European cities I've been to all had thriving neighborhood's , likewise with parts of larger US cities. Of course you can. That's not the issue. The issue is that in many of these areas the current residents largely do not want this because they don't want the character of the areas to change. It boils down to how much control you want existing residents to have over planning. This would be equally hard to change in most of Europe in places where you have geographically constrained areas full of wealthy owners that does not want the area to change too much.