Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest...
by com2kid on Saturday November 24, 2018 @08:56PM
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Majority of the rules, not all.
Remove set backs, get rid of minimum yard requirements, loosen height restrictions.
The rest of the world has houses right next to each other, as do America's most prosperous cities.
Manhattan, the dense parts of SF, Boston, Chicago, etc.
The regulations about minimum grass and 4 foot of set back and no more than 1 or 2 stories, have nothing to do with fire regs and everything to do with long disproven ideas about suburban design that hark back to 1950s ideals.
Visit a modern dense city, Tokyo and London don't have massive fire outbreaks (sprinklers and modern fire codes still work even at density), but they do have an insane about of economic activity in the dense neighborhoods.
Want to solve the housing crisis and get people off the streets? Dump 50% more houses on to the market, heck have cities subsidize their construction if need be, and watch housing prices plummet. Watch mass transit become the life blood of a city, and watch entire new types of jobs become available. (People in NYC may be annoyed at bike messengers, but it is a job created by density!)
Remove set backs, get rid of minimum yard requirements, loosen height restrictions.
The rest of the world has houses right next to each other, as do America's most prosperous cities.
Manhattan, the dense parts of SF, Boston, Chicago, etc.
The regulations about minimum grass and 4 foot of set back and no more than 1 or 2 stories, have nothing to do with fire regs and everything to do with long disproven ideas about suburban design that hark back to 1950s ideals.
Visit a modern dense city, Tokyo and London don't have massive fire outbreaks (sprinklers and modern fire codes still work even at density), but they do have an insane about of economic activity in the dense neighborhoods.
Want to solve the housing crisis and get people off the streets? Dump 50% more houses on to the market, heck have cities subsidize their construction if need be, and watch housing prices plummet. Watch mass transit become the life blood of a city, and watch entire new types of jobs become available. (People in NYC may be annoyed at bike messengers, but it is a job created by density!)