His most promising scheme is an attempt to rein in sprawl by increasing housing density in central areas.
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Building large amounts of high density housing, which San Francisco and Oakland do already have, makes no sense if the people living there cannot get anywhere.
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The new mayor, Mr Schell, a former dean of the University of Washington's school of architecture (and once a developer himself), knows that higher-density housing needs to be well-designed housing.
And things will only get worse in the coming years as Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and his green cadre implement their "smart growth" plans to cram the proletariat into high-density housing.
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Then you would find the higher density housing in a three to four story walkup apartments, and then four or five blocks away you would find the detached, higher quality housing.
Stephen Walters, chief economist at JP Morgan, said there was some "static" in the data with volatility in high density housing data in New South Wales helping to skew the result, but added it was still clear that a downtrend is underway in housing.
Yet as suburban construction ended, cities continued building high-density urban housing--sometimes encouraged by city subsidies.
On the island, he pairs magnificent modern architecture, built on extra-large tracts of land, with a small, discerning clientele a formula that, at first, he wasn't sure would work, but has weathered the boom and recent bust of high-density vacation housing on more tourist-friendly islands.
The density of the housing and lack of firefighting equipment mean large numbers of shelters are often destroyed, but Friday's death toll was unusually high.
Certainly sustained economic growth, low density and more affordable housing all clearly continue to push the center of population gravity toward certain Sun Belt cities, primarily in the Southeast and Texas.
Other states have warmer weather and lower taxes, union membership, population density, and cost of housing.
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The biggest move came in 2004, when Romney signed legislation, dubbed Chapter 40R, providing funds to towns and cities that agreed to allow more high-density, multi-family housing.
The result is scattered, low-density development that keeps affordable housing out, increases the cost of infrastructure, separates inner-city residents from new jobs in the suburbs, and makes public transport less efficient.
For the most part, this means areas that offer the best mix of job opportunities, reasonable housing costs and, for the most part, lower density living.
In Cape Coral, employment has gotten a boost from the recovering housing market and the fact that the city has a low density rate, at 45%, so there is plenty of room to grow.
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They recommend a minimum floor area per bird, in enclosed housing, of 0.026 square metres per kilogram - a maximum stocking density of 40kg per square metre.
Yet strict density limits are preventing real estate developers from meeting the market demand for more housing and office space.
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