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Old Posted Apr 27, 2016, 12:48 PM
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^ I'd really like to see something of an outright outpouring of TOD development in the suburbs. The suburbs have been somewhat stagnant for a while, and home sales have kind of petered out.

We need a region and a homebuilding industry that actually captures new trends and tastes, and while there will always be a market for traditional SFH in the burbs, there is also a lot of demand for multifamily housing within a walking district to the Metra, and adjacent to a walkable commercial district.

I'm not necessarily just talking about multiunit apartment or condo buildings, but even townhomes or, heck, even SFH's built in rows with little yard space. There is a proportion of the population that doesn't mind, and in fact even embraces, a little bit of density.

This is the burbs after all, so you're unlikely to get a lot of 20-40 story towers, but at least with the above kind of arrangement you provide a form of housing that I suspect is in great demand.
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