Damn city folk ruining the countryside tellyahwat
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
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It does change things. More traffic, more pollution, higher taxes my property value has gone up 12+% for the last 3 years.
Affordable housing would be more possible in cities if their building codes weren't so heavily calcified by landlords and NIMBYs 40 years ago. Still, it's good that all these small towns are seeing a resurgence in both population and cultural change, even if their original occupants hate it.
Yeah who cares about non-flammable materials and ADA access. Gimme my cheap cracker box!
I meant more along the lines of "There can't be any new high-density housing developments because itll destroy the characterof the area", or "we can't build new public transport infrastructure because the construction will be too loud :(((". You know, shit that everyone except NIMBYs and scumbag landlords actually wants.
Ahh got it. Fortunately there is a lot of land outside the city, and I think it would be good to make a few new modern cities with tall low cost rent and a walkable environment. NIMBY can live in peace.
But you see, that's the thing; the NIMBYs cry and scream and bitch and moan about all these infrastructure projects, claiming they'll ruin everything and lower property values or whatever, but when they're completed, and property values shoot up because people actually want to live there now, they shut up and claim they were never against them in the first place.
Because NIMBYs are hypocrites, and were using public infrastructure the whole time. They'll never move outside of the suburb or city they're in now, because if they did they'd complain that there was no infrastructure there that they were used to.
Some people just want to complain. Not much we can do. I suggest giving them what they want and building a new sustainable city run by open minded people.
its parking minimums that do the most damage to housing. Car companies fucking with everything in this country
Well, if cities would implement decent public transit and urban planning, that would be less of an issue. But older cities are hard to retrofit and newer cities have so much sprawl that public transit always feels sparse.
I really think we should focus on building new developments with a small footprint, building tall, and banning cars altogether with a robust transit system. But, then the “who pays for it?” Bullshit starts, gets wrapped up in red tape, and suffocates.
I don't think there's even an "if" there. There's nothing showing parking minimums help anything except increase the size of drainage systems, driveways, and engineering costs.
Parking requirements should be placed on the purchase of a vehicle not the design of a house. If you don't have a car you don't need parking.
dense developments and chain stores.
But hear me out.
Population has increased.
We either density now or after we've gone all Detroit with the bungalows, gone broke, and can't afford to densify well.
strained infrastructure
You want bad infrastructure? You get it with bungalow sprawl.
You're either doing mixed-use towers now, or something shittier later when green transit is off the table.
These isolated communities also doom the residents and more importantly their children to a life chained to car ownership.
And the boredom and thus drug abuse that results
From my experience
That was already a thing for them in Texas. They're arguably much less isolated now but either way everyone still needs a car.
That's certainly true of most everywhere in America.
I would suggest that instead of running yet another highway through a city centre, the money be spent on buses, or something cheaper than roads - tram lines. Trams could connect these island-esque neighbourhoods and be a boon to the young and the old alike.
Even in a place like Texas, transit could alleviate that feeling that everyone still needs a car.
Build up, not out.
I'm going to hold onto my massive 8,000 sqft lot for as long as possible!