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No? Telling someone else they can't build an apartment building because they live next to you and you like zoning is externalizing on others unwillingly, tellin
by betwixthewires 5y ago
No? Telling someone else they can't build an apartment building because they live next to you and you like zoning is externalizing on others unwillingly, telling people they have to commute hours in traffic because you like to see the smoggy sunset from your backyard is externalizing. Letting people build more dense housing in a densely populated area to profit and simultaneously reduce the cost on their own property is not externalizing anything, unless you consider your view of the sky to be your property and you somehow having a say in your neighbor building on his property as he sees fit.
- uberman 5y agoJust flip the coin. telling people they: - have to live next to a skyrise is externalizing. - have to use public transit is externalizing. - can't let their kids get a good education is externalizing. - can't let their kids play safely without adult supervision is externalizing. I'll freely admit zoning laws kind of suck in some instances, but you are going to be hard pressed to find a place that does not have them. In fact, the more dense the housing, the more rigorous the zone laws are likely to be. The reality almost everywhere is that one simply cannot do whatever one pleases with their property including keeping it from the government. So, yes my proverbial view of your smog may well be legally protected and that might suck, but you and I are both also protected from a neighbor converting their property into a toxic waste dump.