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Abolish arbitrary zoning, reinvest in smart zoning & pollution laws. Reset residential zoning to be a pretty much blanket zone type for any safely engineered re
by tehwebguy 4y ago
Abolish arbitrary zoning, reinvest in smart zoning & pollution laws. Reset residential zoning to be a pretty much blanket zone type for any safely engineered residential building type.
No one should have significant pollution introduced next door by a factory or power plant replacing a mall or shopping center in their neighborhood. Solve the problem by having real rules, end the ability for some local council person to essentially gate keep what is allowed and what isn’t. It’s probably a massive bribery center too.
- clairity 4y agomore pointedly, focus on structural integrity and mass pollution, not "safety" or "the environment", otherwise nimby's will use it as a cudgel, as they do with CEQA now. specify the forces a building must withstand (i.e., provide engineering specs and give examples), not brainless stipulations like strapping lengths. pass effective pollution laws that target key areas like water, air, and ground, not "noise" or "traffic".
- noirbot 4y agoThis is such a "magic wand" sort of response though. "Get rid of bad laws and replace them with smart laws" is impossible to argue against. The real problems with zoning is often that incremental change is really hard. If you could suddenly rebuild a city or neighborhood overnight, most people may not mind, but when it's all iterative, you suddenly have a poorly sound-insulated group of houses or condos next to a popular or busy sports bar or concert venue. Or you add high-density housing to a single-lane road, now the city may need to adjust speed limits or sidewalks to accommodate the new demand.