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Zoning needs to be a little more nuanced than "build whatever you want." I'd be happy to see multi-family dwellings in my neighborhood but there's a few steps

• arcticbull 2y ago
  Sure, do what Japan does ezpz. Also note there’s no ammonia processing plants in Houston (where there’s no zoning) because it doesn’t make sense to put low density industrial on land that would offer a higher premium as high density residential.
• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > Zoning needs to be a little more nuanced than "build whatever you want." Why? It worked. People didn’t build plants near houses as soon as transportation technology let factories be built on cheap, remote land. Also, I suggested deregulating residential permitting. If people build houses by ammonia plants and people still choose to live in them, that’s sort of a striking damnation of the current system, isn’t it?
  • happytoexplain 2y ago
    >Why? "Home" is a powerful American concept. People will kill and die to prevent it being ruined. This is the other side of the coin (where the first side is "rich assholes want their property to be worth a lot").
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > "Home" is a powerful American concept. People will kill and die to prevent it being ruined People will also kill and die to get it. I own my home. I get it. But the power of that concept pulls both ways, mediated only by turnout and municipal solvency.