Or just make it into a park. We’re not so desperate for space we need to build on what little urban greenery we have left…
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webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Seattle is pretty desperate for housing. 40k new units, especially municipal owned one since this is a city golf course, would be a huge stride forward.
There are talks to convert this into a beautiful park too, but the city government is not intersted.
The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I’m pretty sure Seattle has an ordinance making changing a park to something else very challenging to impossible. Technically golf courses are parks, though I’d argue terrible ones, making it a much smaller lift to turn them into better (actual) parks and let the golfers go out of town.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
40k on 160 acres is more density than any city that currently exists…
HiobsTriops@lemmy.world 5 months ago
True because cities have parks, roads, rivers, business, industrial or municipal areas that can’t or shouldn’t be used for housing. But there are neighborhoods almost as dense. Yorkville in NYC has more than 60.000 inhabitants per square kilometer. 160 acres is about 0.65 square kilometers.
Tobberone@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Ouch. And how many of those are children?
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
As someone who grew up in Suburbia I can say that higher density would be better since it was more kids to play with nearby. We should make sure that there’s a park within walking distance of dense housing going forward I think, since if you don’t have a private car the park is a reasonable ask, especially since it’s probably going to be even better than some dumb piece of grass anyways
frezik@midwest.social 5 months ago
If they’re for grown ups, then there aren’t enough sex toy shops and kink spaces.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I stole the image from fuckcars so yeah. Its a no roads kinda deal.
witty_username@feddit.nl 5 months ago
It is even substantially higher than Manhattan (~27000 people/km²)
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Demographics_of_Manhattanfluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Manhattan has a lot of Office Buildings which brings down the average, people commute in their from over 100 miles away so you can have a lot of office workers in a space with a permanent population that’s much lower
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
not the same thing but similar: Bromma airport in Stockholm is basically completely dead at this point, no one except the right wing parties want to keep it, so while they cope and seethe the rest of the government is talking about turning the airport into a new district much like what is shown here!
It really should be the obvious choice because it’s a super central area and there’s already a tramway going through it!
www.mp.se/sites/…/bromma_parkstad_-_rapport.pdf