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Segregation by use into residential/commercial/industrial zones is a characteristic of suburban rather than urban planning. An alternative to zoning by use is
by arebop 12y ago
Segregation by use into residential/commercial/industrial zones is a characteristic of suburban rather than urban planning.
An alternative to zoning by use is to zone by intensity or pattern of activity. You can consider externalities such as traffic generation or noise or chemical pollution explicitly rather than assuming that e.g., every manufacturing process generates noxious fumes.
The more urban neighborhoods of SF including Pac Heights, Russian Hill, Nob Hill, SOMA, the Mission, the Castro, and Civic Center all include hotels right next to or above or below residential and other, complementary, uses [https://www.google.com/maps/search/san+francisco+hotel/@37.7577,-122.4376,13z/data=!3m1!4b1 https://www.google.com/maps/search/san+francisco+hotel/@37.7...].
- wpietri 12y agoI agree what I said was more simple than the full reality, but even San Francisco has a lot of space that is zoned purely one or the other: http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1569 http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1569 I also agree that some people like living next to hotels, but some don't. And in the case of apartment buildings, it's not so much "next to a hotel" as "in a partial hotel". So I think my broad point, that zoning regulations aren't some sort of pointlessly Orwellian government regulation, and are in fact rooted in reasonable preferences of residents, still stands.