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KstMitribbil-4,nge of the metro ara,ViiffileffiVAlgesfiirriand for development and <br />• g1 r..,.111 y ..:. g typically makes ..p 90 fth., residential I tia 111 ytps:QYLtt ev/ft ittl <br />sill 1G-1 Qlllll G 1. 11.Q11 111d1�GJ U l V %U or more of 1.11G 1 GJ1UGlllldl ldll <br />city leaders are reluctant to change the character of the cherished single -fa r'�! <br />twi - twin - <br />neighborhoods. cities-cities- <br />housirt ausing- <br />rules- rules - <br />"People have come out here and expected a certain way of life regarding hep- keep- <br />the- the - <br />much density we have and what it looks like," said Denny Walsh, mayor ofn�etroi„etro{https:, <br />Orono. segregaiptIWIEN <br />Unfounded fears abound that the kind of reform approved by Minneapolis <br />would lead to bulldozing of single-family neighborhoods. Michael Lens, an <br />urban planning associate professor at University of California, Los Angeles <br />from St. Paul, points out that upzoning does not require the addition of <br />duplexes and triplexes but merely removes a long-standing prohibition <br />(https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2019.1651216) and <br />gives landowners more flexibility. <br />"Ending single-family zoning doesn't end single-family housing. And there's no <br />real reason why we prioritize single-family housing in such a way," Lens said. <br />"You can't have true integration of race and income without a variety of <br />housing types." <br />