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Zoning laws limit where and what you can build. Who sits on these boards, lobby, and vote on zoning regulations? Homeowners in the area. The first thing that
by TrackerFF 4y ago
Zoning laws limit where and what you can build.
Who sits on these boards, lobby, and vote on zoning regulations? Homeowners in the area.
The first thing that happens when a company announces a new building projects, is that they get deluged with protests from the neighboring homeowners. Sometimes this process will take years and years - there's no worse sin than taking away sunlight from neighbors, "visual pollution", and what have you.
- katbyte 4y agocrazy fact about Vancouver: 85% of residential land is zoned SFH
- dionidium 4y agoI think the even crazier fact that explains the housing crisis is that the perception in Vancouver is that the city allows tons of new housing. If you ask residents, they'll tell you all about how much the city has changed. People are naturally conservative with respect to their immediate environment.
- QIYGT 4y agoSame in NYC which has been creating ~3x more jobs than homes in recent decades.
- asdff 4y agoIn SF the ratio is like 7 jobs per unit of housing built, its really really bad https://sf.curbed.com/2017/7/26/16040938/san-francisco-jobs-housing-ratio-homes https://sf.curbed.com/2017/7/26/16040938/san-francisco-jobs-...