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Mixed use zoning is quite common in major American cities. It's much more complicated to implement than Euclidean zoning, though, so I assume it faces some adop
by picardo 1y ago
Mixed use zoning is quite common in major American cities. It's much more complicated to implement than Euclidean zoning, though, so I assume it faces some adoption challenges in smaller cities.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoYeah it's mostly common in places where it has existed historically, and yeah there's been a new effort to reintroduce it. Euclidean zoning is the obvious thing to do if you're planning from a 30,000 foot view, but planning should be done at the level at which humans exist!
- potato3732842 1y agoMixed use zoning is better than not allowing it at all but almost always results in the activity simply not being economically profitable due to the other restrictions. The problem with that is that the "rich enough to have no real problems" people know that for every upscale coffee shop they like there will be five people doing heavier economic activity that they don't like and because they're the only ones with the free time to care they drive the conversation and they limit it to light consumer businesses which of course can't work because that hypothetical coffee shop or sandwich shop needs the foot traffic from all the other business (that doesn't exist, because it's not allowed) in order to actually turn a profit without insane prices. And so then nothing actually gets developed in the up-zoned area and it's still a glorified bedroom community. The people who could actually provide the political will for a proper removal or liberalization of the zoning don't get involved, because they all have other shit going on that's more important.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoThis would be clearer if you actually described the relevant stakeholders directly instead of these oblique references. Really not sure who does what here.