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Where can you find greenfield or brownfield land to build a new neighborhood? My county is already converting the last two large parcels into residential.
by zeckalpha 6y ago
Where can you find greenfield or brownfield land to build a new neighborhood? My county is already converting the last two large parcels into residential.
- maxerickson 6y agoDetroit. Which is only a half joking answer. In other places there are probably a lot of things that could be done at the planning level to make densification more likely. That's not the same as a cohesive project, but it might have a similar effect.
- oftenwrong 6y agoYou don't need undeveloped land. You could increase density on land that is already developed. In the US, even urban areas have a lot of spots where land is used inefficiently: surface parking lots, wide streets, large setbacks, single-family detached homes. Consider that residential streets in American cities may be 25m wide, whereas a residential street in a traditional city is more like 3m wide.