My least-represented housing opinion is that we need more master planned upzoning. Not just more density in an existing area, but density with a vision for land-use patterns, new parks, schools, and amenities — and a way to achieve that incrementally.

I think this is needed only because our land use planning is so godawful otherwise that upzoning offers a blank slate of sorts where anyone who could have been pissed off is already so

Redevelopment is disruptive, so part of a plan like this has to be support and affordability for everyone who wants to stay in their neighborhood through the transformation. If they experience the upheaval — let them also have a nice new home and the improved area amenities.

Does Strong Towns not get at this issue comprehensively enough? I always thought this was kind of their general thrust

Makes you smarter than a lot of folks