![]() However, it is inaccurate to characterize types of developments you disagree with as “unplanned” while portraying developments you prefer as “planned.” Of course, these types of communities can be, and are, planned and built if there is demand for them. The California APA really wants more planning of its preferred developments, new urbanist model communities, which include much higher densities, narrower streets, and rental units and retail/office uses located in a town center. Of course, after this illusion has been created, we are told that this is bad, that this unplanned growth is what is wrong with today’s suburbia and it ought to be changed through more and better planning. It is as if some force randomly selected a spot on the map for houses without regard to the surroundings. Unplanned development and insufficient planning conjure up visions of vast housing tracts and strip malls with no rhyme or reason in their design or location. They offer policies that will purportedly provide Californians with “smart” choices about where to live. Following suit, the California chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) recently stated that California has insufficient planning. ![]() Critics call some new suburban development “unplanned,” a term that in their vocabulary goes right along with inefficient, unorderly, haphazard, cookie-cutter, and a host of other unflattering adjectives.
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