low-density
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In March, the City Council adopted a strategy to delay the effects of SB 79 citywide by upzoning 55 single-family and low-density areas, allowing four- to 16-unit buildings up to four stories tall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
We already know that lifetime exposure to high LDL, or low-density lipoprotein, increases cardiovascular risk, and that getting care earlier can help prevent heart disease.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
He had special interest in landscaping details, insisting on low-density building complexes, deciding the company should spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to plant new trees, says Mayer, now 37.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
“What we show is there is a sharp decline in the intensity of building in high-price, low-density housing tracts. What’s that? That’s the best suburbs,” Gyourko, a professor at Penn’s Wharton School, told me.
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2025
And before they built them these were nice low-rise, low-density neighborhoods—single-story, two-flat buildings where everybody knew everybody.
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
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