Re:97% of California Cities Failed to Meet State Housing Goals
by logfromblammo on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:32AM
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Which is exactly why it should apply uniformly to the whole municipality.
It's the same mentality that uses the "within X' of a school" that elides over the fact that a sufficiently large X will cover everything in the jurisdiction. The PLSS grid system put a school at every other corner, so there was a school every 2 miles, and no child would have to walk more than 1.414 miles to reach one. So if you had defined a zone "within 7500' of a school" that would have been a synonym for "everywhere" that bakes in "think of the children" to your legislation.
"Within X' of a public transit station" instead bakes in "think of the hordes of poor people".
It's the same mentality that uses the "within X' of a school" that elides over the fact that a sufficiently large X will cover everything in the jurisdiction. The PLSS grid system put a school at every other corner, so there was a school every 2 miles, and no child would have to walk more than 1.414 miles to reach one. So if you had defined a zone "within 7500' of a school" that would have been a synonym for "everywhere" that bakes in "think of the children" to your legislation.
"Within X' of a public transit station" instead bakes in "think of the hordes of poor people".