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You're making a massive leap from legalizing more different kinds of development in the US to a totally unregulated city in India. It's basically a strawman fa

by skewart 11y ago

You're making a massive leap from legalizing more different kinds of development in the US to a totally unregulated city in India. It's basically a strawman fallacy. The article clearly talks about a lack of many basic government authority and services way beyond zoning codes, like electricity and criminal justice. I think the lack of reliable power and sweage treatment might have a lot more to do with it being chaotic than the lack of laws banning multifamily apartment buildings.

ktRolster 11y ago
If you think builders won't screw home-purchasers every chance they get, then you don't know many home builders. There's a reason we have housing inspections at so many steps in the building process.
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- jessaustin 11y ago
  Actually, there are many reasons, some of which are good for home-purchasers. It might interest you to know that the inspection regimes of different municipalities vary drastically.
- skewart 11y ago
  Building inspections are to enforce building codes, not zoning. Building inspections and building codes are a very good thing. I don't think anyone in these comments is saying otherwise. Zoning and building codes are two vastly different things. Zoning controls how buildings can be used, what types of new buildings can be built, and, in some cases buildings' overall shape and size. Building codes specify how buildings can be built, and what quality and safety standards the construction has to meet. Like many other pro-housing-affordablity people, I believe we should massively relax zoning laws in most places (though not necessarily abolish them entirely). I do not think we should change building codes in any way.
- PKop 11y ago
  What does that have to do with zoning?
joe_the_user 11y ago
It's not my leap, I'm responding to the parent who called for completely unregulated development. The original comment: If you want to fix the country then remove all limits, let developers develop whatever and whereever they deem there is demand.

by skewart 11y ago

ktRolster 11y ago

If you think builders won't screw home-purchasers every chance they get, then you don't know many home builders. There's a reason we have housing inspections at so many steps in the building process.

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jessaustin 11y ago
Actually, there are many reasons, some of which are good for home-purchasers. It might interest you to know that the inspection regimes of different municipalities vary drastically.
skewart 11y ago
Building inspections are to enforce building codes, not zoning. Building inspections and building codes are a very good thing. I don't think anyone in these comments is saying otherwise. Zoning and building codes are two vastly different things. Zoning controls how buildings can be used, what types of new buildings can be built, and, in some cases buildings' overall shape and size. Building codes specify how buildings can be built, and what quality and safety standards the construction has to meet. Like many other pro-housing-affordablity people, I believe we should massively relax zoning laws in most places (though not necessarily abolish them entirely). I do not think we should change building codes in any way.
PKop 11y ago
What does that have to do with zoning?

joe_the_user 11y ago

It's not my leap, I'm responding to the parent who called for completely unregulated development. The original comment: If you want to fix the country then remove all limits, let developers develop whatever and whereever they deem there is demand.