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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by bcrosby95 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:54PM (#34600943)
That's nice. Many of us don't want that, but have it forced upon us considering something like 90% of all residential zoning in the USA is R1 zoning.

There will be demand for neighborhoods you want and they will exist but it won't necessarily be in the middle of major population centers like it is now.

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by zzzeek on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:56PM (#34600976)
> 90% of all residential zoning in the USA is R1

well if that's based on land area that's not a very informative number. you'd want to do it by population.

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by jholman on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @09:49PM (#34605693)
What? No, doing it by population is a bad approach.

Land is the resource you're dividing up. The question is how much of the divided-up land is allocated to an (allegedly) niche usage.

Doing it by population is like saying "almost no one is a billionaire, almost everyone is basically poor and equally-poor, so there can't possibly be a wealth inequality problem". (I'm not saying there is/isn't a wealth inequality problem, I'm only saying that's a dud argument.)

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