This is what we get with letting our city planning be done by "New Urbanist" legislators.  The original New Urbanist Thinkers actually had some decent ideas, but the people who legislated what we consider to be New Urbanism today threw out all their good ideas and implemented the rest in the most draconian manner possible.  One issue is that they think the only open space that counts is that owned by the government.  So they dictate higher densities, less private open space, and then complain that there isn't enough money to buy more parkland. Of course, in Boulder County, while the City of Boulder Open Spaces are reasonably open to the public, the Boulder County Open space is almost entirely off-limits to public use.