Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage

Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by ihaveajob on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:52PM (#39695761)

I suppose you didn't buy the entire town, so you can't preclude your neighbors from wanting their property to appreciate, their lives to become more social, and their environment to change.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by baggy_trough on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:02PM (#39695888)

The neighbors collectively agreed to the previous zoning. Now some outside body is forcing that to change.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by tptacek on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:05PM (#39695934)

Once upon a time, neighbors also collectively agreed to zone by race and ethnicity, until Buchanan v. Warley in 1917 put an end to that practice and created the minimum-lot-size SFZ proxy system we have today. You can argue persuasively for respecting SFZ, but you probably can't do it from a moral high horse (which is just to say: you can't rest your argument on a moral right).

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by singleshot_ on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @05:14PM (#39697606)

I’m not sure the implication that those of us who don’t enjoy sharing walls are immoral racists is particularly justified.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by tptacek on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @05:48PM (#39697966)

It's a historical fact. I'm not saying you're a racist. Those zoning ordinances though definitely are.

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