Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by jgust on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:34PM
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Nothing like buying a house and having a bus depot opened on the lot next door a year later. #freemarket
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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by alistairSH on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:54PM
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I would never advocate for zero zoning. But, allowing easy transition from single-family to duplex/townhome. And allowing light commercial/retail to be mixed with residential.
Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by thorwasdfasdf on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:05PM
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nothing like never being able to afford a house ever at all. And when you finally are able too, with a humungous mortgage and insane property taxes (due to the high price you paid for it).
No-zoning means housing is much much cheaper, we're talking 100K - 800K difference or more. With all the money you saved, you'd be able to buy another house far away from that bus depot.
Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by cannonedhamster on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @04:41PM
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No zoning doesn't mean it's cheaper. There's zero evidence to support that prices magically go down because zoning laws go away. The only thing that will decrease cost is more supply or less demand. Zoning laws should be made more sensible to allow for combined work and living spaces. Transit systems should be prioritized, but otherwise if housing is to expensive move further away. I commuted for almost 10 years almost an hour to get a house I could afford. Now that my career is more established we were able to move into a closer house. That's simple arbitrage. City prices are always going to be way more expensive than suburbs. Better punished transportation and slowly removing the parking requirements will solve the problem long term. It's a simple solution.
Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by bronson on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:35PM
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> With all the money you saved, you'd be able to buy another house far away from that bus depot.
> ... and have another bus depot opened on that lot next door a year later.
and so on.
Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars
by jessaustin on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:59PM
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Is this so common a thing, new bus depots? From "depot" rather than "station" I'm envisioning Greyhound buses. I was under the impression that long-distance bus ridership was stable if not declining...
Besides which, does anyone really deserve to live a certain minimum distance from transportation options? Why would anyone dislike her neighbors that much?
Trees, meet forest. Bus depot, power station, factory, Amazon warehouse, sewage treatment plant. They are interchangeable in the sense that you don't necessarily want to live directly next to one, which is why to an extent zoning exists.