No sidewalks, or sidewalks only on one side. Or a paved road with a gravel shoulder. Or make the property owner responsible for maintaining a walkable path.

No sidewalks, or sidewalks only on one side. Or a paved road with a gravel shoulder. Or make the property owner responsible for maintaining a walkable path. Different property configurations with narrower, deeper lots. Or houses with no street frontage / shared driveways. (Note: there's a safety tradeoff here with respect to fire truck access.) I'd be in favor of eliminating light poles entirely in residential areas, even if they were free to install and operate. I currently live in kind of a weird house; it's in unincorporated land within an urban area. There is no street frontage; we share our driveway with a neighbor. No sidewalks on our side of the street, but most streets have them. We're one of the few houses in the area still on a septic system because connecting to the city sewer would be expensive and difficult. Few street lights. A sidewalk on our side would be nice, but I can live without it. (We have a 94-year-old neighbor with an electric scooter that he built a wood/and/plastic enclosure for that he drives to the grocery store, so apparently lack of sidewalk isn't a mobility issue for him at least.)