Zoning Makes the Green New Deal Impossible

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Reason.com
Christian Britschgi|Feb. 8, 2019 5:20 pm

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http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/08/zoning-makes-the-green-new-deal-impossib

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"Current zoning absolutely stands in the way of allowing more people to live in high cost areas that are already close to transit," says Emily Hamilton, a scholar at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.

Most major American cities have imposed single-family zoning—which allows for a single dwelling per property to be built—on a majority of urban residential land, says Hamilton. This puts an artificial cap on the number of new homes that can be built.

It forces people to live farther away from each other than they might otherwise want to, making it harder to service all of them effectively by transit. That presents a problem when one's vision is so dependent on people giving up their carbon-spewing cars.

[ConstitutionRose]

 
It forces people to live farther away from each other than they might otherwise want to, making it harder to service all of them effectively by transit. That presents a problem when one's vision is so dependent on people giving up their carbon-spewing cars. 

For the record, any place where I can actually see and hearing neighbor is too close.  I do not get this business of living right on top of each other.  It makes people crazy.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

For the record, any place where I can actually see and hearing neighbor is too close.  I do not get this business of living right on top of each other.  It makes people crazy.

"Inside every Progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out."

[Fishrrman]

"Current zoning absolutely stands in the way of allowing more people to live in high cost areas that are already close to transit," says Emily Hamilton, a scholar at George Mason University's Mercatus Center.

Don't take much to see where arguments like this are leading...

[roamer_1]

For the record, any place where I can actually see and hearing neighbor is too close.  I do not get this business of living right on top of each other.  It makes people crazy.

That's right.
I am just outside of town now, but still way too close. I can't wait to be on the end of a gravel road again somewhere.

[libertybele]

Zoning laws can be amended.