[kristopolous]

It's either going to go vertical or horizontal.

If people afraid of sprawl say no to vertical, then horizontal is going to happen just outside of wherever they care about.

Many people's politics are wildly irrationally disconnected from their sentiments.

I used to live in Davis. If I was King, I'd steamroll everything between A&B and 1st and Russell and replace it with ~30-40 story apartment buildings with multilevel bike parking like in Amsterdam (ex: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/c4/d7/1ec4d7a99c2151699afe...), and rooftop bars and cafes.

The walls would be a mix of vertical gardening (ex: https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...) and photovoltaic windows. The bottom floors would have retail and dedicated community space.

The buildings would further have multi-level skywalks connecting them with small nook like terraces (ex: https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/59f1/27ba/b22e/38e2/a...)

There would intentionally, by design, be zero parking spaces except to accommodate the handicapped.

That's as Davis as you're going to get while actually solving the problem

[Fatnino]

Davis has the best non tesla charger between Sacramento and the bay area. Leave some parking spaces for that.

[kristopolous]

I'm a big fan of parking on the periphery and no cars at the core.

Essentially ban private vehicles on certain blocks except for service transport and smaller golf-cart sized "NEV"s

There's many older European cities with buildings too close to each other for cars where this is done. You'll also find it on islands where the infrastructure to support a car is lacking such as roads with high speed limits and gas stations

The difference here is to claim that's not just a necessity of circumstances but instead, actually a good idea.

[vinhboy]

Lol, ain't that the truth. When the Whole Foods was still there, the chargers around there were the best. It was close to the green belt, coffee, food, and minutes walk from downtown. You could have a real nice "small town" adventure while charging. Ahh... I miss Davis.

Alas, all good things must come to an end.