being able to walk to a restaurant or a grocery store is a key benefit from living in a mixed use urban neighbourhood as is having a home in a rural commune next to a forest preserve this suggests that a key challenge for land use plans is not simply to apply exclusionary zoning that separates different uses but to identify which uses are compatible with each other and support those while discouraging those that conflict from being in close proximity they are fond of different dimensions that can only partly be fulfilled in the city natural areas recreation areas nearby farms and locally produced food that is authentic to the region in nantes saintnazaire this desire for both nature and preserved but transformed landscapes is particularly strong