Re:Revenge of the Suburbs
by Drunk_Engineer on Sunday June 21, 2020 @02:30AM
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In many cases, they are "imprisoned" against their will because zoning does not permit any other kind of development. The other problem is they are not paying the full cost of the suburban lifestyle. It is only sustainable through huge government subsidies.
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> The other problem is they are not paying the full cost of the suburban lifestyle. It is only sustainable through huge government subsidies.
They're paying for it with taxes right? Or are the minority of people living in dense cities paying these huge subsidies for the supermajority in the suburbs?
I saw the ad from real estate developer who subdivided my neighborhood. They made a big deal that only 50 foot lots were for sale, No 25 Foot Lots!
That was 100 years ago. So were living with bad idea's from decades ago. A lot of which was written into codes.
Flips side of bad zoning you can look at old pictures of Pittsburgh when the steel mills were going full tilt. I can't figure out how anyone got any sleep.