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Letter to the editor: Build housing in empty parking lots

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion October 20, 2022

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There’s a new trend coming to a parking lot near you: housing. For generations, we’ve overbuilt our malls and shopping centers with oceans of unused parking spaces – part of an overcautious policy to ensure every station wagon had its berth on Black Friday. For most of the year, a significant proportion of these lots go unused. Just look at a Google satellite view of a big-box parking lot anywhere in America. Final rendering of the Town... + full article



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