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Does zoning prevent the walkable neighbourhoods from acquiring a full range of amenities? Or maybe the planning restrictions prevent the kind of organic infill
by pja 5y ago
Does zoning prevent the walkable neighbourhoods from acquiring a full range of amenities?
Or maybe the planning restrictions prevent the kind of organic infill development that leads to these places acquiring their own local character?
- davidw 5y agoAbsolutely: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/S-F-ice-cream-shop-hopeful-sees-dreams-melted-by-16116082.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/heatherknight/article/S-F-...
- Enginerrrd 5y agoYes it does. I find it really ironic too because a lot of the places praised by modern planning doctrine were allowed to spring up more organically according to need and less subject to such intense planning regulation. It's even worse in that, just like people complain about the personality types that go into policing, I find there's a particular common personality type among planners: weak/mousey people that tend to be low on the totem pole of organic social hierarchies, but who are strongly opinionated and happily embrace their bureaucratic positions to exert power over people and to impose their agendas on the world.