• bane_killgrind
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    11 months ago

    Continuous grade of square footage is one factor, the suburb would have trouble with sprawl and boulder ingress

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      11 months ago

      Yes, car centric suburbs have tons of problems but when has that ever stopped us? We build them in literal flood plains, and along cramped mudslide prone mountains. I’ve never heard of an empty piece of land in the middle of nowhere being zoned for high density residential in the US.

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        11 months ago

        I figured the sides of the canyon would get in the way of profitability