State Preemption

It's really interesting how the Republican Party has basically forsaken much of what they used to claim they believed (small government, local control, fiscal responsibility, etc.).

 

Exactly.

Can the current pub party/rw said to stand for anything...well other than lust for power and trying to own the libs?

No they cannot. Truth is that they're continuing their off the rails descent into a nihilistic abyss.

 

read up on the live local act
commercially zoned property is automatically granted the right to the highest multifamily density in the muncipality and the highest height granted withn a mile of the site if they do 40% affordable housing. 5 acres commercial strip malls being converted to 100 unit apartments tight on commercial corridors that will end up being blighted little rat holes years out. No local control, lose any sort of architectural control or zoning authority. this has been signed into law and the process of building these rat traps has begun

 

For the past year I've been following various yt channels on urban design and infrastructure. I've been heavily influenced by them but unfortunately it has made me remarkably sour re: how terribly designed US cities are--basically every one--in large part due to Post WWII zoning laws that...to use Joni Mitchell's famous lyric "paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Basically wastelands of "stroads" and parking lots that make it hard to undue the damage.

 

1 unit per 5 acres is not really development though. it serves as a buffer zone between more intense development within the urban development and the 1 per 20 acres that would be outside of the buffer zones. The development should be required to build the infrastructure and pay impact fees etc but I don't disagree with the change to the comp plan. Perhaps the commercial should ahve been excluded but that just takes trips off of the road and allows for internal capture. The history says that 1300 homes will not support such a general store though.

 

live local summary from a Lee County CAO. I know that Collier County has densities in excess of 80 units per acre for high rises. Unicorporated Lee COunty maxes out at 14 units per acre with much higher densities in the City of Ft Myers (high rises) and Bonita Springs (high rises)




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Hey man, how long have you been here?? Hope everything is still going well.

 

This morning I read an article which brought up an aspect of zoning laws I hadn’t thought of. Restrictions on multi-family structures affectively limits poor people, who are often minorities, from moving into “better” areas. In the article, he contrasts multiple pairs of cities in close proximity to each other.

MSN

In a new report for The Century Foundation, I contrast Scarsdale with another Westchester County suburb, Port Chester, which is just eight miles away but has remarkably different demographics. Scarsdale’s median household income, in excess of $250,000, is nearly three times that of Port Chester, as is the portion of residents with a college degree. And whereas three-quarters of Port Chester’s elementary students qualify for free or reduced-price meals at school, zero percent of Scarsdale’s students do. In Scarsdale, 87 percent of residents are non-Hispanic white or Asian American, whereas 69 percent of Port Chester residents are Black or Hispanic.

On the overwhelming majority of Scarsdale’s land, building anything but a single-family home is illegal. According to data collected for the report by New York University’s Furman Center, just 0.2 percent of Scarsdale’s lots have structures classified as two- or three-family homes or apartments. Port Chester, by contrast, allows multifamily housing on about half its land. From 2014 to 2021, 41 percent of the new housing units authorized in Port Chester were for multifamily housing.

Television cameras help depict the plight of immigrant families who are turned away at the border, but they don’t capture the way working-class families in places like Port Chester are shut out of higher-opportunity public schools in places like Scarsdale that prohibit the construction of the types of homes that less advantaged families could afford. … economic integration of schools has been found to be far more effective than a “separate but equal” compensatory-spending approach to equity.

 

school choice is a way for the judiciary to allow for options other than rezoning property or forced affordable housing.

 

A day. Don't know how long I'll stick around.

Thanks. Hope all is well with you!

All is pretty well. Health is much improved but it's a battle. Still have vision issues that cause me problems.