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They can maintain high standards. Maybe that's little town villages. This isn't treading new ground.

Nor does progress require that everybody end up within a 15-minute walk of even an appropriately-zoned area let alone actual retail. Maybe the goal could be to enable appropriate zoning within a 15-minute walk of 50% of the households in an given town, and 25-minutes for 80% for example.