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by zip1234 4y ago
Automotive crashes are very much preventable. We in fact know how to prevent them. It is partly why the roads in the US are so dangerous.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Regardless of semantics, there are known road design and electronic/mechanical techniques that can prevent or discourage speeding, regardless of the reason for speeding. The faster a vehicle is going, the more momentum it has, which co
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by zip1234 4y ago
Speeding doesn't change risk? When 'speed was not a factor' in a crash, it just means that the involved drivers were not driving above the post speed limit. It doesn't mean that the drivers were driving a safe speed. In
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by zip1234 4y ago
It is definitely a veneer of control. People's brains and senses have all kinds of strange blind spots that make it a more dangerous activity than it seems. The whole 'zoning out' while driving down a stretch of road for exam
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by zip1234 4y ago
They are still abandoned. They are instead now owned by people that have the means, but no intention of making them better. It has been shown that LVT reduces blight: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis&#
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by zip1234 4y ago
Just because it was passed for a good reason does not make it a good policy. Prop 13, whatever the good intentions, is a disaster and has created a modern landed gentry in California.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Why should one group be immune from change just because they happened to own property in an area first?
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by zip1234 4y ago
It created a landed gentry in California and has caused out of control housing prices. The world changes, trying to insulate one particular group from change is deeply unfair.
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by zip1234 4y ago
What area is this? Are homes being built anywhere in the area?
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by zip1234 4y ago
Valuing a building+land is already done and used for property tax purposes. Why do you think it would be worse or less accurate to just remove building part?
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by zip1234 4y ago
Where they implement such taxes, people with homes often get lower taxes because the tax on vacant or underutilized properties makes up for it.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Many of the abandoned houses in Detroit are owned by speculators who will do nothing with it but wait for land prices to increase.
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by zip1234 4y ago
While we are at it, add tax for other externalities such as noise and air pollution.
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by zip1234 4y ago
There are significant negative externalities to driving.
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by zip1234 4y ago
> the big infrastructure projects are almost entirely paid for by gas taxes. About 50% is probably correct: http://www.financingtransportation.org/funding_financing/fun...
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by zip1234 4y ago
Georgia is 3rd in Federal road subsidies: https://www.ajc.com/news/feds-transportation-spending/ Usage/registration fees pay for less of roads than people think. There is also this: https://taxfoun
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by zip1234 4y ago
Iceland has almost no forest at all. It would not take much to increase the forest cover.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Those libertarians who have famously been in charge of the United States since it's founding and got the US into the current health care cost mess?
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by zip1234 4y ago
The same info is not gathered by American big tech. There is much more in the way of privacy controls in those companies. Source: work for one.
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by zip1234 4y ago
The argument may make sense at a 'hyper local' level but be bad overall. Everywhere is trying to prevent the next level down from getting into their area. At a high level this means economic segregation enforced by the government.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Or increase the power of hyper local--down to the individual property ;)
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by zip1234 4y ago
Many of the first zoning ordinances were just there to keep poor people or other races out. Most places already had rules about industrial and dangerous uses before zoning.
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by zip1234 4y ago
How does zoning prevent an industrial factory right next door? It doesn't. Zones must exist on a plane and naturally butt against each other. Go look at a map of a major city. The industrial areas often butt right against residential.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Noise rules could be quiet hours between certain times, rules about measured decibels, etc.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Waco has zoning.
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by zip1234 4y ago
Police have no obvious replacement. Getting rid of zoning has obvious replacement, which is rules to regulate the negative externalities that zoning was supposed to address, but has failed miserably. I don't think anyone seriously advo
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by zip1234 4y ago
All of these things: "the worst apartments get put right next to the highway, industrial facilities can be co-located with your residence, and transport and sidewalks are a nightmare" happen in places with zoning. Houston is not p
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by zip1234 4y ago
My city is holding public hearings about a new apartment development. People are outraged because it might bring in poor people.
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by zip1234 4y ago
There are way better ways than zoning to regulate negative externalities. For example, rather than blindly saying 'no commercial', a rule could regulate the bad parts of commercial, such as noise. Zoning is a blunt tool and pretty
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by zip1234 4y ago
My favorite has been the mini golf game. Just flat out fun and since I have a decent sized space for it I can walk over a few steps and tap a put in just like I am there. I will have to try Alyx--just figured out how to get SteamVR working

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