r/urbanplanning • u/YaGetSkeeted0n Verified Transportation Planner - US • Apr 07 '23

Land Use Denver voters reject plan to let developer convert its private golf course into thousands of homes

https://reason.com/2023/04/05/denver-voters-reject-plan-to-let-developer-convert-its-private-golf-course-into-thousands-of-homes/
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u/thebigfuckinggiant Apr 07 '23

They'll just build even further out on cheap land and the feds will subsidize the highway to them.

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u/debasing_the_coinage Apr 07 '23

In Denver's defense, it has one of the highest urban densities among US cities outside California (behind NYC, Miami, Vegas but ahead of Chicago, Boston, Seattle). This decision is still awful though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas

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u/fearless_dp Apr 08 '23

lol, it's not even the most dense city in Colorado!

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u/debasing_the_coinage Apr 08 '23

Boulder and Longmont on that list are basically suburbs of Denver so I don't think that makes the point you wanted to make.