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> The US needs to build more, not cancel zoning. With one of the lowest density in the world (36/km²) this should be a NON issue. The reason more isn’t being b

• tptacek 3y ago
  The subtext of the comment you're replying to is that the cities people want to live in are all full up, and people who want to live there should just go make new cities somewhere else.
  • nimbleplum40 3y ago
    They really aren’t though. Even New York is filled with tons of somewhat wasted space and excessive car infrastructure. Especially in the outer burrows.
  • voisin 3y ago
    Zoning keeps every city from being denser than it could be. Zoning is the problem. There’s no such thing as a city that is full up.
• bigfryo 3y ago
  It is not just zoning, it's also permits and building codes
  • voisin 3y ago
    No project has ever been cancelled due to building codes. Permitting can be time consuming (though largely this is a function of zoning and what variances the developer is looking for in order to get to an economic density - which is nearly never “as of right - and what level of community involvement exists in approving these variances) but rarely would permitting on its own be a barrier (it would be the underlying zoning and the NIMBYism that prevents the variances).