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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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