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I really doubt that zoning laws improve quality of life for people in your average randomly selected town. Zoning laws give us things like parking requirements
by bhickey 10y ago
I really doubt that zoning laws improve quality of life for people in your average randomly selected town. Zoning laws give us things like parking requirements which drive down density and force everyone to drive. Then there's frontage requirements, setbacks, bans on multifamily and commercial construction.
One way we could price zoning laws is through their impact on buildable space. As long as we raise taxes on the beneficiaries, everything'll come out in the wash, right?
- gozur88 10y ago>I really doubt that zoning laws improve quality of life for people in your average randomly selected town. Zoning laws give us things like parking requirements which drive down density and force everyone to drive. If you do drive, though, you are not going to appreciate new development which makes it impossible to park when you get home from work. Not everyone hates living in places where people drive.
- TheCoelacanth 10y agoIf people want a guaranteed place to park, they should build a parking space on their own property. There is no reason that public space should be given away to people for the purpose of parking.
- ghaff 10y agoThe issue is when there is some limited quantity of shared parking and some choose to free-ride on that shared space rather than dedicating parking on their own property.
- gozur88 10y agoNo reason except existing buildings don't necessarily have parking or room for it. I don't have a problem with people who live in a place determining what the public space there should be dedicated to.
- hx87 10y agoThat wouldn't be a problem if one of those developments is a 20-story parking garage.