[mcv]

No, they need to move the commercial property closer to the leaves. Not at the leaves, but close enough that the distance is still walkable. That would really reduce car traffic, and therefore reduce stress on the road capacity.

[closeparen]

It would bring mild traffic to parts of the tree that currently have almost zero, which is unacceptable to the people living on them.

[drivers99]

There's a great video about that too. "The Suburban Traffic Contradiction" by Oh The Urbanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQw05Mr63E

One of the interesting points is that there is a commonality between those suburbans and people who want walkable urban areas: few of us want to deal with the problems of lots of cars driving around us.