> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.smdp.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Letter: Density is the future
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letter-density-is-the-future/
- Published: 2024-02-13T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-11T23:46:46.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, letter to the editor, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:20

Residential density is part of our transition to a sustainable future. As such, the proposed Lincoln Center Project is an excellent example of incremental upzoning. Adding density along major traffic routes is a measured approach to addressing our housing crisis.

Opponents of the project need to present a positive vision of how existing density is consistent with sustainable living. Existing research indicates that single-family zoning is wasteful of land, energy, and water; increases sprawl, travel times, and pollution; makes housing unaffordable due to the low number of housing units, increases homelessness, and hinders wealth formation for young families; reduces government services due to its low occupant/land ratio.

100 years ago, Sunset Park was mostly bean and alfalfa fields. The farmers were probably critical of greedy developers laying down streets and building ticky-tack homes — the same homes where citizens now live (and complain). Would it have been better if the farmers in 1924 had prevailed, and kept their farming community intact?

*Ed Salisbury, resident of Santa Monica*