Sentences with phrase «housing density»

They also looked at the use of public transit, the types of energy sources used, and the percentage of housing density.

A new study suggests the best predictor of wildlife abundance in public lands is not human activity, but factors like forest connectivity and nearby housing density.

No plans for Harrow - on - the - Hill had been set in stone and there are always creative options for doing the difficult sums and for increasing housing density without increasing building heights.

Animals that had not eaten in more than four to seven days showed little to no avoidance of the higher housing densities.

As municipalities across Canada move more towards increasing housing density on land once zoned for single - family homes, real estate agents are being challenged with a barrage of conditions related to secondary living quarters.

Instead, Gates said, the city should build more housing in the transit - rich area while ensuring that a sufficient amount of it is affordable under Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) guidelines, which require affordable housing in any area or project that is upzoned to add housing density.

CHF's poverty map for Sekondi — Takoradi, the country's third - largest urban area, takes into account access to housing; room and housing density levels; solid - waste services; sanitation and water; and income, says Ishmael Adams, acting country director for CHF in Ghana.

«A lot of emphasis is given to housing density whereas this would provide an opportunity for homebuyers to live in a more balanced environment where brownfield sites and other inhospitable sites are properly remediated and put to good use, as well as creating and providing better habitats for wildlife.

Most parts of Euless are more densely populated than most other communities of its size, with housing density from both Dallas and Fort Worth making inroads into the Euless area.

Mr. Doty also said that the Conservators are disconcerted by the current administration's encouragement of increased housing density in areas like Springs, that simply can't support it.

The researchers combined those data with information from the U.S. census such as housing density and average household income, to figure out which communities were most vulnerable.

For much of the previous century, the accepted equation in urban planning in Israel, as in most of the world, was that decreased housing density equals higher quality of life — the less crowded a place is, the better it is to live in.

Cities need Goldilocks housing density — not too high or low, but just right We Don't All Have To Live In High Rises To Get Dense Cities; We Should Just Learn From Montreal It's time to dump the tired argument that density and height are green and sustainable.

Developers frequently use those rights to increase housing density at their projects.

SB 827 implements precisely this approach: It shifts power over an important but specific aspect of land use policy — housing density near transit — from the local level to the regional one.

The de Blasio administration, on the other hand, has generally been less likely to favor down - zonings as it seeks to add housing density, with affordability provisions, across the city.

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We included the latter two because, all else equal, increases in the vacancy rate and high levels of housing density should make it more challenging for homebuilders to build.

In addition, camera traps recorded whether the animals» prey sources were more likely encountered in the higher housing densities or in more wild, public land areas like national forestlands.

The Times articles address how SB 32 emissions goals will have dramatic impacts mandating increased housing density and significantly decreased motor vehicle use in California requiring many tens of billions of dollars in expenditures across the state to accomplish.

National planning policies coupled with government housing targets drive Local Planning Authorities to steadily increase the housing density within the currently designated urban areas.

It may be, suggest Sims et al., that, because high cat density corresponds closely to high housing density, this measure is also an indication of those areas «where humans provide more supplementary food for birds.»

Pocket neighborhoods were introduced in 1996 with the «Third Street Cottages in Langley, Wash. «I was working with our little town on an innovative housing code,» explains Ross Chapin, AIA, principal at RossChapinArchitects in Langley, Wash. «The key element was that it would allow for twice the housing density on residential lots if the houses were less than 1,000 square feet, oriented around a shared garden, and parking was screened from the street.

We tested to see how strong the relationship was between these factors and homebuilding (see below for detailed methodology), along with two other measures that might explain homebuilding: post-recession changes in the residential vacancy rate, and post-recession levels of housing density.

In what follows, I refer to areas with a housing density below 4 homes per acre — including undeveloped areas — as low density areas.