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Zoning and car-centric design are intimately connected, though. A walkable suburb just can’t support the number of cars that a typical western suburb supports t
by skepticATX 2y ago
Zoning and car-centric design are intimately connected, though. A walkable suburb just can’t support the number of cars that a typical western suburb supports today.
If you loosen zoning, what you’re going to end up with is denser development and less room for cars.
Streetcar suburbs are an example of this. You have more room than living in the core of the city, but you don’t have enough room for 3 F150s for the family.
- dkga 2y agoThis. Zoning and car-centric life are endogenous. I would even add NIMBYism w.r.t. adding public transportation stops or bicycle lanes.
- bluGill 2y agoThe streetcar suburbs in my area have larger lots than the new suburbs they are building on the edge of town. Back in those days e*erpone had a garden and so lots were bigger. of coures how the lot is built is different but it isn't size.