Vancouver Zoning Map

Re:Vancouver Zoning Map by quantumwannabe on Friday April 08, 2022 @11:52PM (#30965164)

No need for inferred preference, actual preferences of where Americans would prefer to live are 19% urban, 46% suburban, and 35% rural [1]. 71% of urban residents who would like to move want to move to a suburban or rural area, in contrast, 23% and 20% of suburban and rural residents who would like to move respectively want to move to an urban area [2]. Contrary to what your blog post implies, most people have some idea of what each type of living condition is like, and they are making an educated choice.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/12/16/america...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/05/22/what-un...

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Re:Vancouver Zoning Map by Schiendelman on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:10AM (#30965413)

Those are stated, not choices made. Since we know how much people ACTUALLY bid, we know those statements are inaccurate.

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Re:Vancouver Zoning Map by quantumwannabe on Saturday April 09, 2022 @04:24AM (#30966192)

There are cheap high-density areas and expensive low-density areas. According to your and that blogpost's logic, Silicon Valley's high housing prices in single-family neighborhoods and the fact that people want to move there are proof that people ACTUALLY want a suburban lifestyle, not an urban one.

Looking at where people live and where they want to live is a better source of their actual preferences than looking at housing prices in a handful of expensive neighborhoods and guessing what the average person wants.

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Re:Vancouver Zoning Map by Schiendelman on Saturday April 09, 2022 @10:10AM (#30968212)

All you have to do is delete zoning and you’ll let people decide for themselves - no measurement necessary!

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Re:Vancouver Zoning Map by quantumwannabe on Saturday April 09, 2022 @02:53PM (#30970872)

Sure, as long as we also get rid of all urban growth boundaries. Be careful what you wish for, a free market city won't look like what you think it will.

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Re:Vancouver Zoning Map by Schiendelman on Sunday April 10, 2022 @12:44AM (#30974531)

Go for it. A free market city won’t go outward because nobody is willing to pay usage based pricing for highways.

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Re:Vancouver Zoning Map by quantumwannabe on Sunday April 10, 2022 @02:39PM (#30980259)

They already do in many places. Toll roads exist, and the gas tax pays for almost all of the highways anyways. Transit is subsidized an order of magnitude more. A world with no subsidies looks more like suburban sprawl than a dense transit focused city.

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Re:Vancouver Zoning Map by Schiendelman on Sunday April 24, 2022 @04:55AM (#31142319)

Show me evidence. Gas tax doesn’t cause market decisions.

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