My original argument was that it’s not that Morrisville itself has too many SFHs; I think they’re fine if you look at them in isolation, for the exact reasons you pointed out. Instead, I thought that’s a bigger hotspot of new subdivision developments as a function of local employers (i.e. how many people live there and how dense are houses, versus how much would you have to commute -presumably by car?).
I was going to bring up some numbers about subdivision development versus job availability/commutes, but then I realized I made a really stupid mistake: parts of where I thought was Morrisville are actually Cary and Apex.
The above is a map of how many new subdivisions have been proposed by around 2015, per acre. I think this reflects what you meant a bit more, since there’s not a lot of new subdivisions being brought to councils in Morrisville compared to Apex/Cary or Fuquay/Holly Springs. My bad for the confusion.
To add fuel to the fire for my conclusion, I also moved to the Triangle right around the recession. Looks like my perception of things was… pretty skewed, lol.
full white paper here
But with that said, I think that slide deck by Wake County also supports what I suggested for a Fuquay-RTP connection service to augment a Fayetteville commuter rail line.
If you look at where the red (more new housing/commercial areas) is concentrated, I think it means a Fuquay-RTP route could serve more additional residential and commercial properties on top of projects that are already in the project development pipeline like the Garner-Durham commuter rail or existing GoRaleigh services.
In other words, I think a Fuquay-RTP feeder as a part of a Fayetteville-Raleigh rail service might be able to hit more than one bird with one stone. …or at least, it may be worth studying more closely.