Worth Repeating

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Worth Repeating

“Officials say that the very things that attract people who revitalize a city—dense vertical housing, fashionable restaurants and shops and mass transit that makes a car unnecessary—are driving out children by making neighborhoods too expensive for young families.” Taken from a March 2005 New York Times article and reprinted by Rocky Mountain News Editor Vincent Carroll in a March 29, 2005 commentary suggesting an unintended consequence of densification resulting from the FasTracks transportation project.