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That would be nice but I don't see that happening outside of boutique cities like bentonville you really need to start fresh or force it before hitting the inf

• californical 4y ago
  When things like tax revenue-per-acre starts adding up, it’ll also be more affordable to live in denser areas. By removing zoning restrictions, some communities will start becoming more walkable & mixed-use than others. Since it’s more cost efficient, it’ll be cheaper to own a townhome in a dense area than an equivalent townhome in a sprawling area (after the market equalizes & we can keep up with demand, because it’ll be sky-high for those walkable townhomes at first). But if zoning is reduced, supply will start to catch up. People in sprawling communities will start needing to pay more for taxes for things like road maintenance etc since they have much higher costs per person than a dense area, further starting to push people to favor dense areas. Are people willing to pay the actual cost of living in remote areas like suburbs? It’ll happen slowly at first, but just removing the current laws that prohibit that sort of development may actually enable those changes to happen automatically
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  • zepppotemkin 4y ago
    everything's possible it's hard for me to imagine how it would work in some sprawling places like texas eg. houston or austin I could that happening new/growing suburbs outside of cities like that though like as you say if they commit to a sane design/zoning before it's to late