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Doesn't zoning largely let you choose where private businesses go? Maybe you can't select exactly where to put the bank versus the grocery store, but you can se
by Wowfunhappy 5y ago
Doesn't zoning largely let you choose where private businesses go? Maybe you can't select exactly where to put the bank versus the grocery store, but you can select categories of businesses, to create the feel you want.
(I'm not sure whether zoning is a "good" thing or not in general, but there are certainly lots of successful towns and cities with zoning rules.)
- closeparen 5y agoYou can try, but there are failure modes. * People don't want the things that are specified in the master plan, so there's no tenant that would be both legal and viable. * Businesses are protected from competition (for their space, and for their niche in the area) so they charge too much and deliver too little. * People want things that aren't in the master plan, and they aren't allowed to exist. (The politically engaged majority can get the plan amended with enough work, but these top-down designs can miss the long tail of niche interests, none individually powerful enough to get itself on the agenda).
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoI feel like 1 and 3 means your "master plan" just sucked all along. >:) It's certainly a hard thing to get right, though.
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- p_l 5y agoThe solution in most of the world is to not create too detailed plans, and often to minimize the amount of zones with pretty much all of them having multiple uses. This means for example that people obsessed with house prices can't stop a grocer from existing within walking distance.