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The UK is mixed-use pretty much everywhere, but you still need planning permission to change a property from residential to commercial or industrial use, or to
by makomk 10y ago
The UK is mixed-use pretty much everywhere, but you still need planning permission to change a property from residential to commercial or industrial use, or to change it between different classifications of each of those uses. From what I can tell there are legal and possibly even constitutional issues with handling planning restrictions in this way in the US. Basically, it seems the US ended up with rigid zoning restrictions because it's impossible to have the finer-grained restrictions that other countries do.
- masklinn 10y ago> you still need planning permission to change a property from residential to commercial or industrial use, or to change it between different classifications of each of those uses. I'm not saying other countries don't have forms of zoning (japan, the subject of the article, certainly does) I'm saying few to no countries have as exclusive and tight zoning as the US.