Posted on 03/03/2018 4:14:37 PM PST by artichokegrower
Taking aim at climate change, highway gridlock and soaring housing costs, a California lawmaker has ignited a red-hot debate with a proposal that would force cities to allow more apartments and condominiums to be built a short walk from train stations and bus stops.
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You bet. They want everyone in civilian barracks...My term for condos and apartments, where they pigeonhole tens of millions already. Jammed in like sardines, one mans floor is another mans ceiling etc...
Look up Pruitt-Igoe for why this is a bad idea:
The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt-Igoe, were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in the U.S. city of St. Louis, Missouri. Living conditions in Pruitt–Igoe began to decline soon after completion in 1956. By the late 1960s, the complex had become internationally infamous for its poverty, crime, and racial segregation. All 33 buildings were demolished with explosives in the mid-1970s, and the project has become an icon of failure of urban renewal and of public-policy planning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe
An article yesterday was about the State of California taking zoning laws for street vendors away from municipalities. That blends with this. Already they have begun work to centralize law creation in the hands of the Democrat party who has run California for seemingly ever, so why not zoning laws as well.
One might think them a little premature in the announcements of these ploys, but at this point in time they probably think any resistance is by the board.
You won’t need a garage. Garages have evil polluting cars, gas cans and dirty tools and work benches. Liberals see that as old America...A waste of space that could be utilized as living space by hard working illegal aliens or maybe a Somali family.
Leftist will tell ya, you could put a 3 story apartment building in the footprint of a 2 car garage.
“Zoning in general should be illegal.”
It seems to be that way in Houston! Weird place when it comes to zoning. Mansions in the middle of run down trailer parks. Strip clubs next to the church and the grade school.
And even little old Asians grandmothers drive pick up trucks.
Loved the people down there.
Sadly, you are right.
Houston and London are the largest cities with no zoning.
(Though London has historic preservation restrictions)
Neither seems to have much problem with pig farms next to homes
Agenda 21 raises its ugly, dark head.
So glad I don’t live in California. Feel sorry for those Conservatives and FReepers who do.
The real enemy is the existence of public mass transit. It always needs subsidies from the people smart enough to never use it.
In Socialist Utopias you work the Schedule, not your schedule work for you.
BUMP!!
That is how it works
They sit around and talk and act important
They have all the power as well
The land owner loses rights every day to these zoning boards and laws.
But we are always focused on the 2A but don’t realize that our own land/homes are being taken over by communist like boards. Everything has to be approved these days. They take homes that are on 1 acre lots and change the zoning to 5 acre, that means any improvement, like a tool shed, now required a zoning board application because you can’t place it anywhere on the lot because it does not meet setbacks. Yep, tell me again about property rights?
Don’t get me started on property taxes
Get rid of zoning boards and let Americans be free again. Not a single gun owner stopped any of this, just saying.
I live in SF for work. The bay area is in a housing crisis because NIMBYs (many of them quite left here) block any attempt to build higher than 2 or 3 stories because it will ruin the “feel” of their neighborhood. meanwhile, single-family homes here or in the valley go for north of $1 million because demand outstrips supply.
Hubs of economic activity like NYC, Chicago, London all require density to function. SF’s lack of density doesn’t result in everyone having single family homes, it results in middle class people being priced out of the housing market and people being forced into exurbs and two-hour commutes.
It may not be the lifestyle you want, but tens of thousands of families successfully raise kids in dense urban areas. The trick is living close to parks and in a decent part of town.
Zoning civil engineers are collectivists. They push 64 square foot cages until people exodus out of the city.
Then after, they propose 16 foot cages.
Chhose your home wisely.
This law would essentially repeal thousands of local laws and expand property rights. I would probably still oppose it because I’m a California homeowner already and thus would derive no benefit, but be clear this law expands property rights.
But let’s be clear, this law extends Agenca 21.
Or the pot store; or the liquor store; or the migrant worker center; or the strip club; or the methadone clinic; or, or, or.
Thank God for zoning laws.
Seems to me that is how they make money, there is a permit, inspection, and charge for everything. Your view is right. My property was not zoned, however, now it is. The costs of permits are expensive.
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