• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Zoning lets us banish hazardous or noisy industry from where people live, it lets us specify features like sidewalks and trees, it lets us size development appropriate to the area and to the infrastructure. It lets us protect society and future citizens by specifying minimum standards for health, safety, livability.

    While it’s up to the market to decide, local government can’t abdicate its responsibility for shaping the market to best serve the citizens

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      10 months ago

      I don’t disagree, but where I live zoning is a large part of the problem

      The zoning in my area perpetuates unwalkable, uncyclable, parking lot infested sprawl, because single family houses take up 84% of the available land.

      I don’t want industry to move into neighborhoodseither , but I wouldn’t mind commercial or retail, currently prohibited.

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          10 months ago

          That would ne ideal, but sadly city planning in the United states is too political.

          We’ll never get anything done relying on city planning, so the only thing that seems possible is to improve the city organically, through markets.