Cape Girardeau conducts town planning workshop

One of the ideas on the minds of Cape Girardeau residents who showed up for a "town planning workshop" in January was a more walkable, bicycleable community:

On the other side of the room, Bob Zeller, a 27-year Cape Girardeau resident, voiced a similar hope for new housing. "There should be places where people can walk or bike to do their shopping and not necessarily drive," he said.

Walkable communities and smaller lot sizes for homes was a recurring theme. Others in Zeller's group discussed the potential for "zero-lot" housing, units that fit tightly together and require little maintenance.

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