I didn’t say anything about ‘out of character’. However shoving muliti-family into SFH neighborhoods that don’t have the same protections as suburban HOA-protected neighborhoods is unfair to those who choose to live in SFH ‘historic-ish’ neighborhoods. If they wanted to live next to an apartment, they would have lived in downtown; not on the perimeter.
There are plenty of ‘periphery’ areas to these neighborhoods that could work for higher density (ie: Glenwood avenue or the parking lots that line Capital Blvd or Western Blvd.