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general pet peeve (comments from Chicagoans?)
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Originally posted by baltassoc
All the developers want to do is build a profitable, sustainable center. But instead the government is requiring that they lower density, due to intense pressure from the NIMBYs. Needless to say, it is the highest density, lowest profit low-income housing that is being axed.
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A lot of suburbanites zone their towns for low-density, single-family homes with large lots, ostensibly because this improves their homes' values. The result is cookie-cutter communities with bad traffic (a direct result of low density w/ no businesses, etc.) and no place for people like the elderly and students to live. You also have the same few stores everywhere, because there aren't enough people around to support more varied commercial uses. Oddly, when right-wingers start talking about takings and impairment of property rights, they almost never point the finger at suburban zoning laws that gives us miles of ranch homes.
eta: Indeed, David Brooks seems to think that Patio Man owes his natural habitat to this particular form of conservative-friendly government intervention in the market.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 09-13-2004 at 10:08 PM..
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