• daed@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    What I don’t get is some European people want this. I know some who would take their car for everything even when walking was more convenient.

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    Too much parking space and too many lanes. In Europe, houses like this would not be in a suburb, but in the city. Everything would be reachable by foot, bike or public transport, so less people would need a car. It’s not ideal, but at least much less space would be wasted on cars.

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    Houses touching each other? What is this, Soviet Russia? Where’s your minimum setback law for all sides of a building?

    Also I see some houses with more than two floors. Are you trying ruin the character of the neighbourhood?

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    Have they never heard of freaking indoor underground parking? Crazy concept? You park the car indoor, then stairs or elevator into your floor, open door, voilá.

    Why is that so fugging ugly…

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    Even the closest I’ve seen to real life American-style suburbia in Europe, which would be the areas of Greater London from Zone 3 outwards (which is mostly made up of long rows of 2 floor houses), have nowhere near that amount of outside parking spaces.

    Most of European “suburbia” is made up of appartment buildings with 5 - 8 floors and with parlking under them in the form of one or two levels of underground garages, whilst outside parking tends to be pretty limited with at most only one side of the street with perpendicular parking spaces like that, though more common is just parallel to the road parking spaces on one or both sides.

    What I’ve also seen in some places is an appartment building blocks (with multiple buildings or just one large one) in an U shape with a parking area inside that U shape.

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    Still beats the US suburbs, can house more people on the same area. Also those houses are not made from cardboard (though you can never know with the current patodevelopers)