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Re:LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements in ... by hackbinary on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:00PM (#20638298)
I am guessing that you are aligned political to the ideological view of the smallest possible government and regulations.

Unfortunately, developers and property owners will care nothing for the wider community. Firstly, at what point would you end regulations? Perhaps zoning and planning permission frameworks are too much? Let the market decide. Electrical, again that really is too much regulation, and we should let the free mark reign as people will have to adhere keep up their personal reputation.

The unfortunate fact is that personal reputation does not count for shit. Just look at Trump and Johnson. They outright lie and nobody is holding them to account, so what makes you believe that shonky developers and property sales people will hold to their word.

Secondly, our road systems and other community infrastructure can only accommodate and scale with so much growth. If growth is not managed reasonably, then our communities will become truly awful places to live.

I would agree that where population density is lower, then there needs to be less regulation, and where it is higher there needs to be more.

Finally, I would add that that charging 5p for disposable plastic shopping bags has had a hugely positive effect on curtailing the use of single use plastic bags.

Sometimes there is too much regulation, and sometimes there is too little, but fundamentally we need regulation, and participatory democrat systems to manage it.

Your quality of your life and ownership should not be obliterated overnight because somebody bought the neighbouring property and decided to build an industrial composting facility.

Re:LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements in ... by briandear on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:52PM (#20638912)
Houston doesn’t have zoning and it seems to work just fine.
Re:LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements in ... by eesmith on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:26AM (#20642076)
Houston doesn't have official zoning. Instead it has land use regulations, like off-street parking mandates, which act like de facto zoning.

https://marketurbanism.com/2016/09/19/how-houston-regulates-...

Re:LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements in ... by astrange on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:57PM (#20640487)
> Finally, I would add that that charging 5p for disposable plastic shopping bags has had a hugely positive effect on curtailing the use of single use plastic bags.

Although it's increased purchases of garbage bags, which use more plastic in the end because they're thicker.

Re:LA getting serious about lifting parking requirements in ... by jwagenet on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:06PM (#20640551)
I’m under the impression plastic bag bans and use taxes are intended to reduce plastics waste in the environment, not resource consumption.