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Zoning means someone that owns a property cannot do with it as they see fit. How does allowing individual people to make their own decisions about their land ha
by zip1234 5y ago
Zoning means someone that owns a property cannot do with it as they see fit. How does allowing individual people to make their own decisions about their land have anything to do with forcing people into high density?
- beaconstudios 5y agoZoning is good. It came about because industrialists were building factories next to people's houses and they were dying of pollutant inhalation. You need rules for what kind of buildings can go together, but the historic mistake (intentional or not) was to zone retail away from housing and force everybody to drive to get to anything that isn't a single family home.
- davidw 5y agoI don't want to live in 'libertopia', where there are no rules at all, but zoning always had a component of keeping 'those people' away from 'nice neighborhoods'. In the city I live in, right now there's a group fighting to keep duplexes out of their wealthy neighborhood. That has nothing to do with legitimate concerns about truly noxious smells or noises. And, ironically, the whole town grew up around a smelly, noisy, river clogging mill.
- zip1234 5y ago> You need rules for what kind of buildings can go together, but the historic mistake (intentional or not) was to zone retail away from housing and force everybody to drive to get to anything that isn't a single family home. Yes, sure--I was referring mainly to American single use zoning, which is terrible. There are certainly approaches that have way less in terms of downsides, such as the Japanese style zoning.