Ugh

A dismal site visit today to a not-to-be-named beautiful town in western Mass where my firm has been hired by the town to do a review of another engineer's development plans. The developer's plan is to turn a lot of this (actual picture from the site):


into something like this, but actually much worse because ugly 2-story detatched triplexes are proposed at a much lower density:


This is a travesty. I also saw this house in a brand new development in the same town.

Come on. Our communities are degenerating all across New England, and the effects are disastrous.