In San Francisco for work and I can't get over how the Caltrain station has 2 and 3 story buildings across the street from it. Tokyo real estate developers wouldn't let their phone stop ringing until they sold, because Tokyo real estate developers could complete construction.
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(From a land use perspective basically anything you did with that footprint is a better use of it contingent on the new thing being 9+ stories, which it would easily, easily sustain due to traffic patterns. Apartments, condos, office space, mixed use development, etc etc.)
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Would a good solution here be to re-zone this area mandating a minimum of X# floors? Is that a thing, mandating a minimum building height / capacity to optimize land use?
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I mean if you give people certainty that you would actually be able to build 10+ floors then the economics mean people willing to build 10+ floors would outbid anyone wanting to build 2, by a staggering margin.
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