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> It’s sad how much our local governments main job is to try and freeze everything in place and prevent change. I wish we had mixed zoning outside the rare cit
by csdvrx 3y ago
> It’s sad how much our local governments main job is to try and freeze everything in place and prevent change.
I wish we had mixed zoning outside the rare cities like NYC: it would offer at least one scalable option to reduce urban sprawl - say when lots are demolished.
- devilbunny 3y agoPlenty of mixed zoning in New Orleans. Unsurprisingly for a French-founded city, the older areas (not just the French Quarter) use the traditional shops-on-ground-floor-living-quarters-above method. And they have a lot of small commercial streets within their neighborhoods, which are demarcated more by the larger divided streets (many of which had streetcar lines running down the space between - in most places, it's the "median", but in NO, it's the "neutral ground". No, I have no idea why they call it that - never lived there but go quite often).
- jackcosgrove 3y agoThe neutral ground was so named because it demarcated neighborhood boundaries between French (Acadian) and American neighborhoods.