Originally Posted by
UniChris
My argument with your earlier posts was that you were blaming the commercial zoning for keeping the shopping away from the housing.
The actual problem - which I'm glad to see now recognized - is the lot size and single family residential zoning and incumbent habits keeping the housing away from the shopping, schools, daycare, employment, transit, and nightlife.
The housing "keeping away from shopping schools etc," is due to zoning. Look into the zoning laws in your area... see if they allow mixed residential/commercial etc. Many areas do not... and that zoning is a hold over from the development of car culture. The result is homes are build out in suburbs.
It is a complex social-economic problem, cemented into place with zoning laws.