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I sooooo want you to be right. However, you are wrong at least for USA. Zoning laws will slow this down and the momentum will be lost. I’d love a taste of euro
by throwaway98797 5y ago
I sooooo want you to be right.
However, you are wrong at least for USA. Zoning laws will slow this down and the momentum will be lost. I’d love a taste of europe in america with some mix zone areas.
I know not all cities are like the ossified ones. Ie., austin has mixed zones but many cities arent.
I want to live in the picture you paint.
- elzbardico 5y agoLandlords have pretty powerful lobbies, once they see the writing in the wall, and that they can chose between writing those assets off or lobbying for mixed zoning, I hope they will lobby for that. Well... a man can always hope
- iancmceachern 5y agoMy building did this. They are "live work " units that can either be rented by businesses or people as residences.
- positr0n 5y agoI live in a suburb of a quarter million directly north of Dallas. They are building up some decently dense mixed-use areas along the 4 major highways that bound the city. Mostly on the north-west side (Legacy West) so far, but they are trying to revitalize the strip along the highway to the east as well, including an old mall over there. We just had elections, and several candidates, including for mayor, campaigned very hard on the platform "my opponent is in bed with developers and wants to turn our sleepy suburban town into a dense urban hell hole!" Surprisingly to me, those candidates lost.