CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days

Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by nemo44x on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:31PM (#34598318)

Actually it strips power away from the people making us less democratic. What will happen is developers with political connection/money to get their people elected, will have fewer barriers to their profits now.

This is a transfer of power from the people, that is democracy, to the oligarchy.

> I don't care what effect this has on my neighbors property value.

That is such an awful attitude and a big problem of what is wrong in the country today. We live in communities and communities agree to certain values. It's about well more than just you and what you want to do.

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by gorbypark on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:50PM (#34598691)

I'm always of the mind that it's harder for developers to have connections at a state level compared to a local level. It's more believable that a local developer has connections to city council in a single city and the amount of palms to grease is much less. Moving up to state level (especially in CA) the amount of money / influence would greatly increase to be able to influence the new zoning regulators. Not saying it can't happen, but it would be more of an undertaking (imo).

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