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Building regulations yes, zoning regulations no. There's a community near me that has enormous housing shortages and yet they maintain a 1 acre minimum lot per
by fnimick 3y ago
Building regulations yes, zoning regulations no.
There's a community near me that has enormous housing shortages and yet they maintain a 1 acre minimum lot per single family house only to "preserve character". Does that sound like a safety issue to you?
- rootusrootus 3y agoThat sounds very unique, to the point of implausibility. Any community with a 1 acre minimum lot by definition doesn't have anything like an enormous housing shortage. That's rural density.
- fnimick 3y agoYou're right, the solution has been fixed as of this April (which I didn't realize until I went looking - thank you!) But up until then, Lexington had a huge housing shortage and skyrocketing prices, with strictly enforced zoning which basically banned all new housing construction. Teachers in the local schools were looking at a housing situation where prices started at around 30x their annual salaries. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/13/business/with-high-costs-little-new-housing-lexington-becomes-first-town-meet-ambitious-new-zoning-law/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/13/business/with-high-co...
- antisthenes 3y ago> Any community with a 1 acre minimum lot by definition doesn't have anything like an enormous housing shortage. That's rural density. It could or it couldn't. It depends on how many people currently live there and how many people are _trying_ to live there, and how much is available for sale at any given time (e.g. real estate liquidity).