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Re:The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments by CalRobert on Friday July 03, 2020 @04:34PM (#23727285)
Imagine you park on the street and don't pay for it. Now imagine I open a restaurant next door. Diners park on the street. All of a sudden you can't mooch off of public land to store your private property! Time to go shout at your planners about traffic and parking!
Re:The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments by fennecfoxen on Friday July 03, 2020 @04:51PM (#23727499)
What strange invective. Residents of a city who own private property pay property taxes, sales taxes, and fuel taxes to build and maintain roads. The people they are "mooching off" are themselves.

Likewise, if your city has set you up with some amenity like parking, and you plan your property purchase around it, and they take it away to give to someone else, it's quite reasonable to get mad — even if the use of that amenity was not specifically deeded to you as private property. There may be other concerns in a city to which they must yield, but it is hardly as if they are entitled freeloaders.

Re:The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments by CalRobert on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:20AM (#23731171)
Why is it I can fill my garage with junk and park on the street, but not park in my garage and plop a hot tub in the street?