Density Standards: Minimum Density

Dense Areas Dept: Rather than building sprawling residential communities that may somehow evolve into more dense areas sometime in the future, as a Durham planner suggests, it is better to build higher density mixed use communities right from t, according to The Star. Such communities can be quite pleasant and marketable, and reflect not only demographic change but a latent desire of many people for something other than the typical blandness of suburban residential developments and re: A region s rise and sprawl, Jan. 16 If one accepts that there is a significant risk that energy shocks, worsening environmental conditions and difficult economic times will characterize the future between now and 2031, the permanent impacts of what is built today makes it preferable that, where greenfield development is inevitable, such communities be built at double or more the provincial minimum density standards. As reported in the news.
@t energy shocks, greenfield development