> If we were to make housing more dense but use the extra space as countryside that's not going to provide any more customers within the catchment area of the O

> If we were to make housing more dense but use the extra space as countryside that's not going to provide any more customers within the catchment area of the OP's coffee shop, is it? If your current area has 400 residents but you can still easily walk to open fields, increasing that to 1200 residents in the same area would triple potential coffee customers while maintaining the same access to countryside.