Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning

Re:Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning by rsync on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:04PM (#27723531)

Genuinely curious as to how much time you have lived or worked in Houston ?

I found many pieces of it - some of which were directly related to lack of zoning - to be aesthetic disasters.

There seems to be a conception that support of zoning, and things like it, need be grounded in some scientific public-good maximalism that probably doesn't exist.

I don't feel bound by that at all.

The reason I am against ad-hoc liquor stores being run from a walled in front porch of a single-family home converted (badly) to a duplex[1] is because I dislike them aesthetically.

[1] Houston, circa 1999.

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Re:Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning by ZoomerCretin on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:49PM (#27724800)

It's easy to value things like aesthetics when you've got yours. Rents are taxing people out onto the streets and raising the cost of everything, but heaven forbid we offend any NIMBY's personal aesthetic tastes.

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Re:Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning by jnwatson on Monday July 05, 2021 @07:25PM (#27742791)

I grew up in Houston.

The general idea is that city planners prioritize aesthetics over their residents being able to afford housing.

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