Re:Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning
by Tiktaalik on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:10PM
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It remains very good to remove SFH mandates, but it probably won't result in significant change for a good long while.
Purely from the underlying economics, you'd be surprised but in many cases the "highest and best" use of land will still be to maintain an existing detached house.
This policy however could make it that in cases where existing property is a tear down, and we're talking about what to build on bare land, it makes more sense to build with intenser uses.
Re:Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning
by shuckles on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:27PM
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Gut renovating old single family homes is a lot more difficult than demolishing them to build small, newer multi family (think a 2 story quadplex). There was plenty of the former happening throughout the Bay Area, and the latter was largely illegal.
Re:Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning
by kindatrue on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:10PM
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>Construction in Berkeley is still extremely difficult
True for most of the Bay Area
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Re:Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning
by sep_field on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:20PM
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I'm not rich, and don't live in Berkeley.
Re:Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning
by cft on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:08PM
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These comments are better for Reddit. HN is not yet a political platform
Re:Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning
by sep_field on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:19PM
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"start ups" are inherently a political topic -- the culture of them promotes hypercapitalism.
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Still, I'm excited to see things moving in the right direction. Berkeley is fundamentally a university town with one of the best public universities in the world, so making it affordable to live in Berkeley is providing a great opportunity to many people.