re: Why don't suburbs like Central and Walker ban high density developments?

Cities suck when it comes to handling growth.

They aren't prepared.
They fail with the response.
Developers swoop in and frick everyone.

The "rural" place we moved to 8 years ago barely resembles it any more. The city has yet to find a piece of forest that it doesn't think looks better with cookie cutter McMansions. Never mind the roads can't handle the flow, and schools are bursting at the seams...