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Originally posted by lurkette
Anyhow, it's complicated, and our neighbors are all bleeding heart liberals, too, so I'm sure we'll come up with some kind of solution that makes everyone happy.
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You must live in a college town :-). I do, too.
At any rate, I do want to say that high density housing can be so well-designed as to minimize its impact (except on schools and traffic, of course). I live in what's called an "infill development." A developer bought an very old house on a busy artery with a _very_ large and long back yard. Extended the driveway to the back of the property and built two cottages of moderate size on each side, founded a homeowner's assocation, and sold off the individual units. We have quite small lots but the development is attractive, prices were cheap (at the time), we're happy, and really nobody even knows we're back here except the post office and fire department and UPS. We don't even park on the street.