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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by andys627 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:23PM (#34598183)
I intuitively agree but have learned that "Cities should be able to plan their own growth." is just too simplistic.
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by epistasis on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:31PM (#34598319)
Agreed, there should be a strict framework within such planning happens, to avoid the housing crisis that CA cities have created for those that don't own land. Japan is a great inspiration for planning like this. US planning, the entire field, is absolutely abhorrent, and should really be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch.
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by sonar_un on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:22PM (#34599332)
City planning is much too simplistic for the metropolises of California. Region planning is more apt.
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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by rootusrootus on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:43PM (#34601719)
The other lesson might be that 'city' is too broad a term. Some cities are standalone, some are just arbitrary boundaries within a metropolis. Maybe the latter should be eliminated and replaced with a metropolis-wide city.
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