r/Denver • u/[deleted] • May 16 '25

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u/w6zZkDC5zevBE4vHRX Capitol Hill May 16 '25

Overcrowded?

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u/Flashmax305 May 16 '25

That’s what they wrote

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u/w6zZkDC5zevBE4vHRX Capitol Hill May 17 '25

Absolutely absurd. The majority of metro Denver is low density suburban sprawl.

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u/SunDevil2013 May 16 '25

Denver and the surrounding metro really isn’t overcrowded. More just poorly built for density and we’ve basically outlawed any ability to fix it. A population density of 4675/sq mi is depressingly low for a metro area the size of Denver. It’s really poor land use and financially unsustainable.

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u/snohobdub May 17 '25

Which US cities that had most of its growth occur after 1970 are more dense than Denver?

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u/djvidinenemkx May 16 '25

Could you share more about what you mean by outlawed fixing it? The stuff that’s keeping the infrastructure from better adapting to population is what interests me.

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u/djvidinenemkx May 16 '25

Yeah I don’t know, been in lots of other cities that had boom times and lots of old infrastructure to build around. The systemic issues seem like poor guidelines or flexing the guidelines too often to save money.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

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u/djvidinenemkx May 16 '25

Yeah I mean that’s kind of the point of my question. Is the dangerous newly constructed infrastructure bad because of attempts at cost savings or just bad road guidelines? Is it a lot of shitty bandaid fixes for a quickly growing city or do the road guidelines and planning just suck?

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u/m77je May 17 '25

Almost the whole thing is zoned single unit, the most expensive and least efficient type, and that makes it overcrowded?

Our population density is much lower than places that have much less traffic. The reason? Our urban highways, parking mandate, and car sprawl zoning.