But the Planning Board was opposed to a tall building in the midst of a single-family neighborhood.

There are ways to solve these problems, but they require rethinking some basic assumptions about how single-family neighborhoods are planned.

Yet it has managed to maintain a number of single-family neighborhoods with manicured front yards, big garages and a distinctly suburban feel.

Should communities permit or even encourage these conversions in single-family neighborhoods?

By including explicit standards, communities can assure that the character of single-family neighborhoods remains substantially unchanged.

All the research shows that residential parking programs work best in lowerdensity, single-family neighborhoods.

It also backs up to undeveloped land, part of the single-family neighborhoods that border the site on three sides.

In single-family neighborhoods outside New York City, it is more typical for the effective rate to be close to 2 percent.

So a church or synagogue, for example, could be built in a single-family neighborhood, where a supermarket or an office building could not.

People who are committed to a single-family neighborhood don't want that changed.