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Imagine if Marin looked like the rest of the areas surrounding SF: endless, endless suburban sprawl. They made the right choice to prioritize open space and mi
by teakettle42 5y ago
Imagine if Marin looked like the rest of the areas surrounding SF: endless, endless suburban sprawl.
They made the right choice to prioritize open space and minimal development.
You can ascribe whatever motives you like, but we know what the result would have looked like, and it was not a winning idea.
- Lammy 5y agoFalse dichotomy imo since the sprawl is a direct result of the same exclusionary mindset that economically disincentivizes (and often outright forbids) upzoning. Remember that the very concept of single-family zoning / minimum parcel sizes was a Californian invention, first codified in 1916 in Berkeley shortly after the state passed a law prohibiting land ownership by nonwhites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Alien_Land_Law_of_1913 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Alien_Land_Law_of_1...