Molson Hart

What's depressing about lists like these is that regions like Dallas, Orlando, and Houston are building massive numbers of relatively high-density communities through multi-family units—but only a small share of those units are oriented toward walkability and transit use. https://t.co/1me5XHjw4e 

How do you orient a multifamily property towards walkability and transit? - wide sidewalks - barrier between cars and sidewalks - density - not guaranteeing parking for the building - locating near transit and already walkable neighborhoods.

Is there something I'm missing? I live in Dallas and this is pretty much what is happening. All these multi-family building have parking which is car-centric, but it's basically impossible to live in Dallas without one. Unless a massive swath of land or build their own transit,

I don't see how developers can do better than they are.

It’s by metro areas, so while the majority of multifamily in Dallas proper may be happening near transit, there are still the huge # of multifamily projects in the northern suburbs that are missing the key component of transit that gets their residents reliably around the region.

1. That's on city government not developers imho 2. Dallas has a pretty expansive light rail network that no one uses. It goes out to the suburbs and from what I've seen it does attract more multifamily than areas without it

Point 1 we agree on, the failure is on a regional level to provide transit to support walkable urbanism. Point 2 is precisely an example of this problem, DART is expansive but only works as a hub & spoke so that its branches become further apart the further out you go 1/2

meaning that reaching the suburbs is irrelevant bc it doesn’t connect btwn the suburban employment districts that have the most new multifamily apartments. The DART system doesn’t acknowledge that the DFW metroplex is a multi-nodal employment region & therefore few use it 2/2