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To: Road Walker who wrote (314722)	12/12/2006 12:34:06 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573732

re: Look at what Daly has down in Chicago.......while not a sterling example of good gov't he is not nearly as corrupted as his father........and Chicago is the better for it. FWIW. I agree with all the points you made... except it really hard to retrofit after you already have sprawl... and we have it in spades. That's what western cities are doing.......LA's density has gone from 7400 per sq mile in 1990 to 8200 in 2000......that's a big jump and many people believe its higher because the illegals are undercounted during the census. Twenty years ago, LA was the poster boy for sprawl. So long as a metro area is still growing a city can go from low density to high density and increase its population. Chicago, NYC, SF were all low density at one time.......they each made a conscious decision to change that aspect of their urbanization. And of those three cities......Chicago had the least pressure to grow its density.....given that its located on an essentially flat plane. Public policy determined the increasing density, not demography. By the 1960s, Seattle was pretty much built out and started to lose population. By 1990, it had begun to increase the allowable density on its planning maps......consequently, the city's population grew by roughly 57K people from 1990 to 2000. Again, its a matter of public policy. Have you spent time in Chicago? GREAT city. And the commute turned into a 'reverse commute' about 25 years ago. It is such a livable city, that more people live in the city and commute to the suburbs for work than the other way around. Yes, Chicago is a cool city.