CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days

Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by AtlasBarfed on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:35PM (#34600602)

If you're going down the slippery slope of libertarianism (on a strange collective/communist level), then who are the rest of us to stop an individual property owner from selling his lot to someone that wants to build 5+1 multiunit housing?

So either you go right wing and you have no right to restrict developers on land they legitimately procure

Or you go left wing and you have no right to impose (?accidentally...ish?) racist, classist, and generationalist zoning results on people.

Or you go centrist and point out that population growth, livability, and cost for practically everyone is raging out of control because of zoning laws.

Now, that's all policy reasoning on idealistic grounds, which of course matters not at all! The real political calculus is rich (landed) vs the young / middle class / poor (priced out).

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by rootusrootus on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:41PM (#34601688)

Of course it's all a scale and there are infinite points along that scale. Wanting democracy at the lowest possible level doesn't preclude wanting to avoid going all the way to the "every man for himself" option. I guarantee some folks want it to be dictated at the federal level, even.

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