Agenda 21, Agenda 2030....
Seattle just upgraded some of their streets. Turned parking spaces into “green zones”. New high rises are not required to provide parking. All to encourage living and working in town, and to push mass transit on commuters.
In my suburb they are building like crazing in the downtown area. Tearing down the old one-story buildings (old bars, old four-store strip malls, one-story western wearhouse, etc.) and putting up 8 story condos with designer shops on the ground floor. And at the same time putting funds into “legacy farms” two miles away.