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So much of this is the fault of oft-ignored local zoning boards. Everyone complains that Americans don't want to give up their cars. Well, of course they don't.
by apsec112 10y ago
So much of this is the fault of oft-ignored local zoning boards. Everyone complains that Americans don't want to give up their cars. Well, of course they don't. In 99.9% of the US, it's illegal to live within reasonable walking distance of your job or your grocery store, and it's illegal to build densely enough to make public transportation practical. So of course everyone drives everywhere, they have no other choice.
- minikites 10y agoI'm not sure zoning is the issue when you take a look at Houston, a sprawling car-centric city with very lax zoning rules.
- CalRobert 10y agoAh, but Houston has rules designed to force urban sprawl in myriad different ways. They just refuse to call it zoning. Case in point - my old apartment was 2 bedrooms and had no offstreet parking. It was near a number of excellent bars with no parking. Fortunately it was easy to walk between them! Houston has rules forcing people to live far from said bars, and forcing both their home and the bar to have parking (which spreads things out even without density maximums), and makes it harder to patronize those bars without driving intoxicated. https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2016/04/14/sprawl-beyond-zoning/ https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2016/04/14/sprawl-beyond-zo...