Items 17-22: There are two rezonings that zip through. The first is an extra 76 acres of housing, tacked onto Cottonwood Creek on 123.
I worry a bit about that whole region east of 35 becoming an extreme retail desert. You would not believe the size of the huge tracts of land that have been approved for housing out that way. The vast majority of it seems to be single-family housing. So far, there are no amenities ever discussed – no restaurants, no grocery stores, no daycare centers, no drycleaners, none of the things that make living easier. Maybe I’m short-sighted and the free market will elbow its way in, but it feels very grim to me.
(In general, I don’t understand why Americans are so opposed to having businesses in our neighborhoods. A neighborhood restaurant and laundromat sounds great to me!)
Neither developers, nor P&Z, nor council seem to have any appetite for making new neighborhoods denser. We only seem to approve apartments when they are massive, standalone affairs. Otherwise it’s acres and acres of sprawling single-family homes. When developers are allowed to build duplexes, they don’t seem to want to. Nobody ever attempts to sprinkle 4-plexes and 8-plexes throughout a neighborhood, and it makes me sad.
The other zoning is another patch of La Cima. This is part of the original La Cima agreement, from 2012 or so.
La Cima is a perfect example of the thing that gives me a sad: the original agreement involves both multifamily and single family housing. So they are building a large apartment complex at the front, and then acres and acres of single family homes stretching forever and ever beyond. This authorizes some more of the ever beyond to be turned into single-family homes.
The San Marxist 