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None of this would have much impact. What is really needed is to abolish most forms of land use restrictions. Abolish parking minimums, abolish floor-area-ratio
by namlem 4y ago
None of this would have much impact. What is really needed is to abolish most forms of land use restrictions. Abolish parking minimums, abolish floor-area-ratio minimums, abolish single family zoning, abolish or severely limit community review of new housing developments. Neighborhoods built prior to WWII are nicer places to live precisely because these rules didn't exist when they were built. It was the insanity of post-war high modernist urban planning that destroyed American cities and suburbs.
- nemo44x 4y ago> Neighborhoods built prior to WWII are nicer places to live The East Coast is a great place to appreciate this dynamic. There are a lot of old suburbs and towns and they tend to be great places to live. The homes are beautiful and well maintained, the trees are mature, and they are generally expensive places to live. Contrast them with adjacent towns that were built up post WW2 and the homes are ugly and isolated from restaurants and shops and they probably don't have a train station. And the property values are generally much lower. Every non-rural home should be walkable to a real park, public transit into the anchoring city, and a town area with shops. So many post-WW2 suburbs are just wastelands where every home is an isolated island. But they aren't rural. It's weird.