I live in a suburb in a town designed as a car based place. We have a parkway, even.

We do have local shops - I'm about as far from one as you can be, so I have two in opposite directions each 20 minutes walk away

The local government is trying to densify the suburbs and allow us to build multiple residences on our block, but they limit the number of residences by the size of the block

So even though some houses right by the shops got rebuilt recently they are each 2 individual residences, where that place and its public transport links could easily support as many as would fit

If they really wanted us to increase density they'd let those people build four or five floors of apartments, they'd let me build a quadplex