, which the city claims “respects the suburban character of Plano and seeks to preserve and enhance the built environment.”
“Indeed, from the perspective that schools improve in quality when they have more resources , apartments may increase This association with apartments and crime isn’t completely unfounded, however, correlation does not equal causation, Fischer said.“I think what’s important to keep in mind is what kind of apartments we have built over the last couple decades. What do people have to associate apartment living in their life?” Fischer said. “And when we look around the region, here in D-FW, we can see that we’ve concentrated a lot of our apartment homes in neighborhoods that were not great places to start with.
“People have been conditioned over time through media and sort of through other outlets to see … single-family housing as desirable and higher density apartment housing is not the first choice of housing,” Fischer said.