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Peter Calthrope

Its not Smart Growth… It’s Called Avoiding a Housing Crisis

March 1, 2016 By Howard Blackson III 1 Comment

Climate Action Zone - San Diego County Administration Building - by Jen Spencer
Photo by Jen Spencer

California’s Bay Area housing disaster tells Southern Californians that our housing crisis will only get worse and doing nothing is both an irrational and irresponsible response. We are faced with deciding to have more neighbors or pay more taxes as we desperately need money to fix our city’s crumbling infrastructure.  The conundrum is that we despise taxes and the mere mention of ‘density’ polarizes any discussion into either demands for no new growth or building tall towers.

I believe answers to meet San Diego’s housing demand are found in the following two-tier approach: [Read more…] about Its not Smart Growth… It’s Called Avoiding a Housing Crisis

Filed Under: Affordable Housing, Ecology, Feature Posts, Planning, San Diego Tagged With: Climate Action Plan, climate change, global warming, housing, Peter Calthrope, San Diego, TOD, transit oriented development

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