It’s great to latch on to ethnicity as the part of a statement to attack. But realistically reducing housing cost by eliminating zoning just turns neighborhoods into shitholes.
You move into an area and buy a house worth x amount of dollars, years later someone buys the house next to you and turns it into a junkyard. All of a sudden your property is worth dramatically less. You’re lowering housing prices by taking away the money from individuals buying their houses.
You say you’re in infrastructure, what happens when they build 27 apartment buildings, on a fringe property near the beginning of the service line and everyone downstream of them starts to get backups? Roadways, power, zoning and planning by zoning is the only thing that allows infrastructure to stay running.
Rather than getting rid of zoning we simple need common sense rules set statewide designed to encourage sufficient multi family dwellings in urban settings instead of glorifying the single family home. For instance the country of Japan has for the entire nation one set of zoning rules.
But realistically reducing housing cost by eliminating zoning just turns neighborhoods into shitholes.
Citation needed. Keep in mind I have traveled and built stuff in countries that don’t have zoning. So good luck with that.
years later someone buys the house next to you and turns it into a junkyard.
Not sure why you would want to buy an expensive property with presumably bad electrical (residential stuff is shit) and not great highway access for something that makes very little money per unit land. Me personally if I was setting up a junkyard I would want to be on the outskirts where land is cheap and I didn’t have to worry about a school bus or a soccer mom SUV blocking me in.
All of a sudden your property is worth dramatically less.
Housing, I have been told, is an investment not an asset. That is how we justify a government credit system to keep it going complete with bailouts. Investments come with risk. We should go back to viewing residential property as an asset, something you just own.
You say you’re in infrastructure, what happens when they build 27 apartment buildings, on a fringe property near the beginning of the service line and everyone downstream of them starts to get backups?
Only for 12 out of the last 15 years. It would depend on the site but I would start with sewage grinders on each of the buildings, diesel backup, and a small wetwell at the lowest point in the area. Since presumably it is a dense area I would put a building over the wetwell. Pull all the methane thru an odor scrubber (city water would be okay for this) and make sure all the windows can be open in case of an emergency, since I fucking hate dealing with class 1 division 2.
However I am not a civil engineer I am in the electrical/software/network guy so yeah take that with a grain of salt.
About two years ago I had a site like that and that’s what we ended up with. Not exactly the same since they couldn’t get into the main sewage lines directly so had to use the bucket method. Basically process the waste to the point where all you have is shit bricks. Shit bricks are conveyed up by buckets (think ski lift) then rehydrated and allowed to enter the main line. It’s sounds kludgy but it could survive a multiple week power outage and the preprocessing meant only a percent of what went down the drain ended up hitting the system.
None of this has to do with zoning btw.
Roadways, power, zoning and planning by zoning is the only thing that allows infrastructure to stay running.
Really? So how come the last meeting of my city zoning department was involved in them yelling at a local motel because the cops caught some Johns? How come they have passed rules that satellite dishes can’t be street visible? How come they had a full meeting to discuss banning signs in Arabic because they were “unamerican”? How come they zoned out dispensaries when it is legal for rec in my state? I do follow them and I don’t see them meeting with engineers planning our sewage systems. I see a bunch of bigots trying to keep POC out.
It’s great to latch on to ethnicity as the part of a statement to attack. But realistically reducing housing cost by eliminating zoning just turns neighborhoods into shitholes.
You move into an area and buy a house worth x amount of dollars, years later someone buys the house next to you and turns it into a junkyard. All of a sudden your property is worth dramatically less. You’re lowering housing prices by taking away the money from individuals buying their houses.
You say you’re in infrastructure, what happens when they build 27 apartment buildings, on a fringe property near the beginning of the service line and everyone downstream of them starts to get backups? Roadways, power, zoning and planning by zoning is the only thing that allows infrastructure to stay running.
Rather than getting rid of zoning we simple need common sense rules set statewide designed to encourage sufficient multi family dwellings in urban settings instead of glorifying the single family home. For instance the country of Japan has for the entire nation one set of zoning rules.
Citation needed. Keep in mind I have traveled and built stuff in countries that don’t have zoning. So good luck with that.
Not sure why you would want to buy an expensive property with presumably bad electrical (residential stuff is shit) and not great highway access for something that makes very little money per unit land. Me personally if I was setting up a junkyard I would want to be on the outskirts where land is cheap and I didn’t have to worry about a school bus or a soccer mom SUV blocking me in.
Housing, I have been told, is an investment not an asset. That is how we justify a government credit system to keep it going complete with bailouts. Investments come with risk. We should go back to viewing residential property as an asset, something you just own.
Only for 12 out of the last 15 years. It would depend on the site but I would start with sewage grinders on each of the buildings, diesel backup, and a small wetwell at the lowest point in the area. Since presumably it is a dense area I would put a building over the wetwell. Pull all the methane thru an odor scrubber (city water would be okay for this) and make sure all the windows can be open in case of an emergency, since I fucking hate dealing with class 1 division 2.
However I am not a civil engineer I am in the electrical/software/network guy so yeah take that with a grain of salt.
About two years ago I had a site like that and that’s what we ended up with. Not exactly the same since they couldn’t get into the main sewage lines directly so had to use the bucket method. Basically process the waste to the point where all you have is shit bricks. Shit bricks are conveyed up by buckets (think ski lift) then rehydrated and allowed to enter the main line. It’s sounds kludgy but it could survive a multiple week power outage and the preprocessing meant only a percent of what went down the drain ended up hitting the system.
None of this has to do with zoning btw.
Really? So how come the last meeting of my city zoning department was involved in them yelling at a local motel because the cops caught some Johns? How come they have passed rules that satellite dishes can’t be street visible? How come they had a full meeting to discuss banning signs in Arabic because they were “unamerican”? How come they zoned out dispensaries when it is legal for rec in my state? I do follow them and I don’t see them meeting with engineers planning our sewage systems. I see a bunch of bigots trying to keep POC out.