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Zoning is a self-inflicted problem. Land? Hong Kong hosts a population of 7.3 million in an area 427 square miles. The Bay Area spreads a population of 7.7 mill
by quotemstr 9y ago
Zoning is a self-inflicted problem. Land? Hong Kong hosts a population of 7.3 million in an area 427 square miles. The Bay Area spreads a population of 7.7 million over 6,966 square miles. The Bay Area has room for a fifteen-fold increase in population. All it has to do is remove the zoning straitjacket.
- kazinator 9y ago> fifteen-fold increase in population That's a fifteen fold increase in garbage. Fifteen fold increase in the number of toilets that flush shit. Probably close to fifteen fold increase in cars; people can't live without those even if the density goes up. I basically support density if the population remains constant. If we take a sprawled city of two million and make those people cluster together in a region that is 10% of the original area, that is fantastic! We can use the 90% of the area for parks and farmland. Everyone living closer together creates various efficiencies. Cheaper commuting, distribution of goods, HVAC.
- quotemstr 9y agoSo what? Beef up infrastructure by fifteen times as well. What's the problem? Are we running out of concrete? Have we lost the technology needed to build sewage treatment plants? Has actually building stuff become offensive? I also want increased density. In the Bay Area, zoning regulations keep density artificially low and prices obscenely high. Stop the self-inflicted pain.