How do you and California YIMBY keep conflating exclusionary single-family zoning with zoning in general? Your libertarian fealty to land use deregulation is ahistorical and economically naïve. What’s good for developers and real estate investors is not irrefutably good for communities. - ThreadSky

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inclusi.us • 38 days ago

How do you and California YIMBY keep conflating exclusionary single-family zoning with zoning in general? Your libertarian fealty to land use deregulation is ahistorical and economically naïve. What’s good for developers and real estate investors is not irrefutably good for communities.

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samalcorn.bsky.social•38 days ago

Because zoning, as implemented in most US cities, is not just about making sure people of different economic situations live far away from each other; it’s also about keeping those people dependent on driving cars by ensuring that all the places one needs to get to are far away from their homes.

inclusi.us•38 days ago

You planning education seems to be incomplete at best. Doesn’t say much for AICP certification either. Zoning is not about keeping economic classes apart. If local elected officials allow it to be used that way, blame them not the tool they use. Redlining started with lenders, not zoning.

samalcorn.bsky.social•38 days ago

I’m really flattered that you seem to think I not only received formal education in urban planning, but that I might do it for a living!

inclusi.us•38 days ago

Markets prefer sprawl over intensification and density. That’s not an artifact of land use regulation. It’s an artifact of market preferences expressed through the political process. Try electing leaders who lead. If you do that but take away tools like zoning, you’ll fix nothing.

inclusi.us•38 days ago

Markets will not solve this problem. The people who own and run businesses favor cars and car-dependent cities as much or more than NIMBY homeowners. But yeah, throw babies out with the bath water! Sheesh!

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