Nah, I want infill development and densification. Currently, NIMBY land use policies such as single-family zoning make it literally illegal to build anything denser than a detached single-family house on the majority of urban land in the US and Canada, which leads to endless suburban sprawl, a severe housing crisis, and a near-complete dependence on cars.
Get rid of these NIMBY land use policies, and people will be able to build denser, less sprawling, more transit-oriented cities.
Today the effect of single-family zoning is far-reaching: It is illegal on 75 percent of the residential land in many American cities to build anything other than a detached single-family home.
That figure is even higher in many suburbs and newer Sun Belt cities, according to an analysis The Upshot conducted with UrbanFootprint, software that maps and measures the impact of development and policy change on cities.
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You want to increase sprawl? This is how you increase sprawl.
Nah, I want infill development and densification. Currently, NIMBY land use policies such as single-family zoning make it literally illegal to build anything denser than a detached single-family house on the majority of urban land in the US and Canada, which leads to endless suburban sprawl, a severe housing crisis, and a near-complete dependence on cars.
Get rid of these NIMBY land use policies, and people will be able to build denser, less sprawling, more transit-oriented cities.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities-across-america-question-single-family-zoning.html