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The zoning laws are easier to work with, they’re basically summarizing a large number of anti-nuisance laws. In practice, it shouldn’t really matter if you have
by ako 4y ago
The zoning laws are easier to work with, they’re basically summarizing a large number of anti-nuisance laws. In practice, it shouldn’t really matter if you have one or the other for the resulting city.
- analog31 4y agoA potential difference is which one minimizes the number of lawsuits. The status quo, at least in my locale, is that you have to get prior approval for a project, and in some cases, it has to be open for public comment. On the other hand, if you have to wait until something is built, and then require the neighbors to prove that it's a nuisance, then every single issue becomes a lawsuit.
- SECProto 4y ago> In practice, it shouldn’t really matter if you have one or the other for the resulting city. Oh but it absolutely does. If you live next to a park and your teenage kid want to put an ice cream shop in your garage to operate on summer afternoons, zoning laws prevent it. Anti nuisance laws would not. If you want to run a single-seat hair salon in your neighbourhood, so that the old folks who can't drive could still get their hair cut locally, zoning laws prohibit it. Obviously if you want to open a commercial shipping and receiving warehouse in your garage, both regimes would prevent it.