A Low-Cost Solution to Traffic
I&#x27;d like to see a little more from new urbanists than for them to endlessly restate their thesis.  Yes, okay, we&#x27;ve now seen the 1,000th reiteration of the idea that dense mixed use residential&#x2F;commercial developments have a number of advantages.<p>How do we actually get there?  Is &quot;just&quot; changing zoning actually enough?  Is there a case study?  Over what time-frame?  With what downsides?<p>NIMBYism isn&#x27;t a magical spell cast by Satan: it&#x27;s an organic outgrowth of people&#x27;s incentives.  What is the way around it?  I don&#x27;t believe that then 1,001st reiteration of the advantages of mixed use developments is the answer.  What kind of compromises work to keep NIMBYism from obstructing all of these developments?