Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving

Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving by ajmurmann on Thursday April 06, 2017 @01:04AM (#14048059)

The zoning restrictions are one of the most startling things to be about the US. Especially since the US is in general very pro market but in this case is incredibly anti market.

The major my suburb recently sent out a survey asking people what kind of building projects people would like to see. The granularity of what was being asked for was shocking. It should not be the government's task to decide if we need to build single family homes or multi family homes and if they are allowed to be town houses etc. I felt like I was in the Soviet Union.

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Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving by mschuster91 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:20AM (#14048839)

I don't see zoning as black-and-white as you do. We have pretty strict zoning requirements in most of Germany too... with some exceptions of course, and you can immediately see that the quality of life in lesser regulated areas goes downhill.

The point is that you have to apply common sense to zoning, which given the countless comments about US zoning seems to be the difference.

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Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving by mjevans on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:36AM (#14048892)

I would like to see more of this in the US.

Common sense (zoning, and other things):

Japanese Zoning :: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8540845

http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

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