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Zoning is almost all bath water. We can regulate where industrial use can exist as separate laws and get rid of the 97% of zoning that has been a disaster for the US socially, economically, and environmentally.

We can regulate where industrial use can exist as separate laws and get rid of the 97% of zoning that has been horrible for land use in the US

Suburban infrastructure is much more costly per resident than urban infrastructure. However, we massively subsidize suburban infrastructure and restrict urban environments with zoning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/05/sprawl-costs-the-publ...

Agreed. This is one of the most transit dense areas of ny and the country. The amount of available street parking was minuscule compared to the amount of people walking/biking/transiting on 14th.

If so, I'm sad to say that the city recently removed the traffic calming on 16th ave

https://denverite.com/2022/06/09/denver-installed-traffic-ca...

It's people that have the highest impact milage. We can pack food tightly into a truck and they don't mind waiting when the packing takes some time.

We can't easily pack humans more densely into trucks, so reducing their miles traveled has a much bigger effect (and if the distances are shorter they can also walk/bike/bus instead of single occupancy vehicle).

Cities aren't loud, cars are. Unfortunately, if you live in the states, we've let cars overtake 99.9% of our cities. It's not this way everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

Shouldn't the person driving 2000+ lbs of machinery be responsible for how they are operating rather than a person trying to walk in a crosswalk?

And if you wait to long to allow building, you get stuck in a negative feedback loop where people who work in the building trades get priced out of a city, so construction costs spiral out of control too.

There is huge demand for people to live in dense walkable areas that can't be met because of restrictive zoning.

You may not want to live like that, but plenty of people do. We should allow them.

The problem in the United States is there is almost no choice. If I want to live in walkable/bikable area, I might be fine with living in a tiny flat at a reasonable price. But because of zoning, parking minimums, discretionary review, setbacks, roads designed for traffic throughput etc. there is a huge shortage of these areas so they are not only small, but expensive.

We need to allow these types of communities for people to have choice.

It is insane that given the destruction that cars cause we don't do more to reduce their use.

'Exerting property rights' = preventing others from building on their property.

'Exerting voting rights' = zone newcomers, poor people, and apartment dwellers out of existence so they can't vote in our local elections.