[theshrike79]

I visit the corner store near me almost daily, it's easy to walk the 5 minutes to grab more milk or some other ingredient I'm missing.

If I were a church going person, I'd go there maybe once a week.

I really don't understand the logic of having more churches than stores =)

[db48x]

It has nothing to do with how often you visit, or how many of them there are. A store is a commercial place, and that’s exactly why it should be further away. People who prefer the suburbs don’t want to live next to commercial uses.

[kkfx]

> A store is a commercial place, and that’s exactly why it should be further away

I still fail to understand why, of course I understand that some people like sweet coffee vs others who like it bitter and others who do not like it anyway but I fail to understand a reasoning for suburbs and commercial spaces.

Commerce might means traffic back and forth and that's a good reason to not want it near a home, but SMALL commerce does not means much traffic anyway and "nearby" does not means "aside". A cemetery it's the same, I see reasons not wanting it aside homes, but the opposite... Well... I understand that for some a church nearby is important, but it's still not a residential home and host ceremonies so have various peoples and cars coming and going so again I see reasons not wanting it aside a home and still not much reasons not wanted it nearby.

Anyway, IF local resident like having church and cemeteries but not small store it's perfectly fine, my original comment was about the discussed articles where I do not agree in general, in conclusion in particular, but I agree about some sub-rubs problems.

[theshrike79]

So a small corner store or 7-11 type operation is "commercial use" and somehow bad?

What kind of thing are you imagining in your head when you say "commercial use"? A massive 10 acre parking lot with a 2 acre steel and glass megastore?

The thing I'm thinking about is most likely smaller than an average house in American suburbia and with a smaller plot. It's not a place where a family of 7 will drive with their gigantic truck and buy groceries for two weeks. It's something you (or your kids) can walk/bike to if you need to grab a few bottles of soda and snacks for a movie night. Or you stop by on the way home from work to get tonights dinner. You also can't buy 48 brands of cereal, maybe 2 or 3 of the most popular ones.

I think you've never experienced a small corner/neighbourhood store and your view of "commercial" is skewed to American Size things where everything is next to a 6 lane stroad with parking lots larger than many European cities.

[db48x]

> So a small corner store or 7-11 type operation is "commercial use"?

Yes, exactly that. These types of commercial uses are only ever placed on the edges of suburban neighborhoods.

But they’re not “bad”. Nobody thinks of them as “bad”. They are simply commercial, and therefore don’t go inside the neighborhoods.

Supermarkets and big box stores are placed even further away.