Originally Posted by
agamemnus
1) Again, just look at the map. Other, much more viable places are a few hundred feet away. There's not much of a time difference between a 30 second drive to the on-ramp and a 5 minute drive. If a 5-minute drive is "next" to a highway, that gives an enormous area. Highways aren't rail lines with no parking spaces -- they are transportation arteries.
But noooo, let's build new housing on the cheapest land imaginable and hope the occupants don't mind.
2) Again, it's a public health and safety issue. People should be able to live in their houses, have a conversation, let their kids play outside. None of that is possible (i'm saying if you're SANE) when you live on a hill a few feet away from a busy highway. It affects everyone else who then has to deal with these peoples' attitudes at work, their lost tax revenue, their kids' obesity, and their own public health insurance costs (more so with Obamacare).