The Most Important Housing Reform in America: Removing "Community" Input

From the article:

> the policy that Charlotte approved last week: abolishing single-family zoning. Charlotte’s Comprehensive Plan prescribes legalizing duplexes and triplexes citywide, giving more people more access to more types of housing in more neighborhoods, and undoing a policy originally intended to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ban on racial zoning by keeping renters out.

There are a number of places reversing the dominance of single-family single-use zoning for residential real-estate that has existed for the past several decades.

I think this is a good thing. Other countries have been doing this all along and have much more people-friendly neighborhoods, also allowing low-impact businesses to be mixed in with residential, still having rules for height, setbacks, etc.

Single-family single-use zoning ended up being convenient for large developers, being the cheapest way for them to turn land on the outskirts of town into profits, with little regard for the people who would live in these corporate-constructed neighborhoods and how far away from everything else in the rest of their lives they would be - the cost of car dependence, the commuting time, the lack of nearby places to socialize, kids far away from their friends, etc. Many of these places are going to have trouble paying their infrastructure replacement costs in the coming decades, there's not enough taxpayers per mile.

>It's important to Remove "Community" Input

>Because it's important to have more "Community" members everywhere

I don't understand