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Is this the same zoning that prevents building toxic waste dumps next to hospitals or rendering plants next to schools?
by jl6 3y ago
Is this the same zoning that prevents building toxic waste dumps next to hospitals or rendering plants next to schools?
- tptacek 3y agoNo. It's the zoning that mandates minimum-lot-sized single family residents on most of the country's urban residential areas. Nobody seriously advocates cancelling SimCity-style R/C/I zoning.
- HPsquared 3y agoResidential and commercial should be closer together. Why not have apartments and office in the same building?
- tptacek 3y agoWe should do that. But it's not principally the thing we're talking about when we discuss restrictive zoning. We're talking about a housing crisis, which is caused by restrictions on where and what housing can be built, not a commercial crisis.
- astura 3y agoMixed use zoning exists.
- tptacek 3y agoIt's widely prohibited. Residents (reasonably) resist new commercial developments on their blocks, and there isn't meaningful advocacy to overrule them on that. But, more importantly, residents almost universally resist increased housing density of any sort (any sort of development that increases the number of people who can live in an area), and so you also see resistance to any housing being built on commercially-zoned land.