"Unfortunately, the chief cause of the problem, use-based zoning, goes unrecognized by most residents – and the journalists who cover cities because the regulatory practice is both ubiquitous and highly technical. Since zoning is mostly about dealing with impacts, with the result of most conflicts being a reduction in density or scale to appease neighbors, the amount of revenue that results from new development is also reduced. Increasingly, the tax base – the private property that government assesses to pay its bills – has shifted from high-value, close-in, compact and mixed-use downtowns and city neighborhoods that are thrifty in their use of municipal infrastructure and services, to land-hungry, low-density, single-use sprawl that generates a weak return in relation to the huge costs that governments takes on to accommodate such growth."
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 04:41:54 +0000
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