Re:America’s Affordable Housing Problem
by coding123 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @05:29PM
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I've advocated in the past for noise based zoning and it was, to my surprise in HN pretty well upvoted. It's a great idea. I would offer too however that it should be noise and pollution. You can have a very quiet plastic melting factory killing a lot of people nearby.
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Re:America’s Affordable Housing Problem
by anon291 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @07:32PM
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Toxic waste and pollution is an example of an externality that absolutely should be regulated, but it's not necessary to do that via zoning. Just specify how much space such a factory must have to the nearest residential area in order to be built. That's not a zoning law. That's just a business usage law. Similar to how I can't make noise in my neighborhood past 10PM.
Thus why I mentioned "emissions".
As much as I love BBQ, if someone opened a restaurant and started smoking at 1AM everyday next to my house, I'd be pretty upset.
On the other hand, I probably wouldn't care if a couple of architects wanted to set up shop next to my house.