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It’s happening in my city because we just voted for it. Previously the zoning rules prohibited it on SFH lots. Boy did the magats try everything to stop it, including bringing out old dog whistles but their only concerns was to raise their own property values. The majority was more concerned about growing our economy and keeping the cost of housing down.
The concern here is that just amending zoning rules to no longer prohibit it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be built. A lot of places allow multi-family dwellings like townhouses, duplexes, etc., but have other rules that make them less viable. Like requiring that they not be taller than a single-family home, that they have off-road car parking for 8 cars on a 4-unit apartment, that they pay much higher infrastructure charges, etc. Things that just make it too expensive to be worth it, thus undermining the point of increased density in zoning in order to reduce housing costs.
You gotta make sure that if you have made allowances for denser zoning, you don’t have other stuff sitting in the way.
It’s happening in my city because we just voted for it. Previously the zoning rules prohibited it on SFH lots. Boy did the magats try everything to stop it, including bringing out old dog whistles but their only concerns was to raise their own property values. The majority was more concerned about growing our economy and keeping the cost of housing down.
The concern here is that just amending zoning rules to no longer prohibit it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be built. A lot of places allow multi-family dwellings like townhouses, duplexes, etc., but have other rules that make them less viable. Like requiring that they not be taller than a single-family home, that they have off-road car parking for 8 cars on a 4-unit apartment, that they pay much higher infrastructure charges, etc. Things that just make it too expensive to be worth it, thus undermining the point of increased density in zoning in order to reduce housing costs.
You gotta make sure that if you have made allowances for denser zoning, you don’t have other stuff sitting in the way.