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> required shrubbery and facade articulation Isn't that appeasing to the NIMBYs who don't want their property values to drop?
by h0l0cube 3y ago
> required shrubbery and facade articulation
Isn't that appeasing to the NIMBYs who don't want their property values to drop?
- echelon 3y agoThis is decades of regulation set by people who may no longer be alive. These archaic rules were crafted for a different era and are products of that time and thinking. Their desires and pressures were different than the ones we face today. We need to garbage collect the rules and streamline for today's needs. Some regulations, such as fire safety, remain important. Many others are simply an unnecessary impediment that hold us back from meeting demand.
- kiba 3y agoTheir desire and pressures probably impedes the time they're in. It's just not immediately obvious, and even today it's not completely obvious. Typically, the response to ever increasing traffic congestion is to invest in wider highway, but the consequence remain the same, yet people continues to push for highway expansion.
- musicale 3y agoToll lanes tend to have reduced congestion versus free lanes, but they can be regressive (when the toll is more than the fuel cost savings) and often come at the expense of free lanes. Widening highways allows toll lanes to be added without reducing the number of free lanes.
- h0l0cube 3y agoSo it's the legacy of NIMBYs.
- epistasis 3y agoAnd it's also appealing to NIMBYs that want to stop all new development after they have their own home. Every extra hoop to jump through gives extra negotiation points or veto points. Anything that can provide a point of argumentation that allows further delay is a chance to stop a project. Every month of delay is a chance for construction costs to rise, for financing preapprovals to run out, for the builder to get tired of the process and pursue greener pastures.