Today at the Fifth Friday at LCPC discussion we discussed financial and legal impediments to more effective growth management.. Banks are inherently risk averse making it difficult for developers to...
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Today at the Fifth Friday at LCPC discussion we discussed financial and legal impediments to more effective growth management.. Banks are inherently risk averse making it difficult for developers to be early adopters of new forms in land development, even when they know they can market and sell higher density and mixed use projects. Some jurisdiction have explored the use of flexible form-based codes that allow building use to evolve and adapt to changing market and financial realities. We should expect residential over commercial buildings to be viable (yet) in our suburban communities. Instead, we should be allowing the form of suburban blocks and neighborhoods to incrementally change over time. This change will be facilitated by changing market forces as well as social, economic and cultural changes.
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Today at the Fifth Friday at LCPC discussion we discussed financial and legal impediments to more effective growth management.. Banks are inherently risk averse making it difficult for developers to be early adopters of new forms in land development, even when they know they can market and sell higher density and mixed use projects. Some jurisdiction have explored the use of flexible form-based codes that allow building use to evolve and adapt to changing market and financial realities. We should expect residential over commercial buildings to be viable (yet) in our suburban communities. Instead, we should be allowing the form of suburban blocks and neighborhoods to incrementally change over time. This change will be facilitated by changing market forces as well as social, economic and cultural changes.
