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Yes, great point here. Build all the luxury housing you want. My first cheap slumlord apartment started its life as a luxury building in the 1930s. The proble
by dangus 3y ago
Yes, great point here.
Build all the luxury housing you want. My first cheap slumlord apartment started its life as a luxury building in the 1930s.
The problem is when someone knocks down a 3-flat row house and builds a single family home in the same plot of land. Unless we have negative population growth that should never happen (and usually the places where knocking down a house and building an entirely new one makes sense are growing and desirable).
- zbrozek 3y agoMore often than not this happens because the denser housing predates zoning restrictions. When that building reaches end of life and needs to be replaced, there's little economic choice but to build the single-family home.
- sokoloff 3y agoIn many (most?) places, you can replace an existing non-conforming/grandfathered use with a new building that's no more non-conforming than the current situation.
- amluto 3y agoAs far as I know, where I live, you can do this if the old non-conforming use was destroyed due to a disaster. Otherwise maybe you can ask nicely and get lucky.