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There's been a lot of pushback on Minneapolis's 2040 plan, but ultimately I think it's a step in the right direction. Most of the objections are from people liv

There's been a lot of pushback on Minneapolis's 2040 plan, but ultimately I think it's a step in the right direction. Most of the objections are from people living in quiet, mostly single-family neighborhoods who don't want apartments near them. But really, most of the rezoning only takes place directly along busier corridor streets; the interiors of those blocks would still be single-family zoned.

rayiner 7y ago
That’s really cool: https://www.curbed.com/2018/11/27/18113208/minneapolis-real-estate-rent-development-2040-zoning https://www.curbed.com/2018/11/27/18113208/minneapolis-real-.... Someone called Sweden “Minnesota writ large” and that really seems to have a kernel of truth to it.
- Ericson2314 7y ago
  That and also it's full of Scandinavians.
TulliusCicero 7y ago
That's unfortunate that it doesn't go that far. Increasingly, people are willing to call mandatory single family home zoning what it is: economic segregation. If, to live in a particular neighborhood, your household has to own or rent a large home on a big plot of land, that's obviously going to keep out the poor and working class from living there. We tend accept this as if it's natural and fine, but is it? This isn't even a case where you can say, "well, that's just what the market has decided, it's the invisible hand," because it's actually government regulation that's enforcing the segregation here. Why do we want the government to do that again? I'm not saying that every neighborhood has to allow giant apartment towers, but that they won't even allow fourplexes or townhomes or small apartment buildings that would still allow for a peaceful neighborhood is an issue.