#upzoned

[mysterywhiteboii]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tom the Dancing Bug: Can Lucky Ducky find a home?

https://boingboing.net/2023/12/20/tom-the-dancing-bug-can-lucky-ducky-find-a-home.html

[archi-playground]

"Stealth Density", "Disguised Density", "Gentle Density"

How Architects tactfully design and pitch infill housing that responds to context and the politics of upzoning.

[peachmuffinsquish]

How US Can Lower Rents, Home Prices, Build More Houses: Copy New Zealand

[reptilia2003]

this fucking RULES 💪 common nimby L

[righthandarm-man]

the hardest part of dating in nyc is trying to find a nice, bearded socialist who isn't a NIMBY

[caprice-nisei-enjoyer]

Well, this blew up. Everyone's talking about the symptoms of car-centric urban design, which are bad. But consider treating the causes! Upzone your neighborhood!

American urban planning!

[antiquery]

gonna be so mad if the supreme court takes up rent control and guts it for what are almost guaranteed to be exactly the wrong reasons. worst person you know, etc

[biglisbonnews]

Not in Steph Curry’s Backyard Another famous resident of Atherton, California — the country’s wealthiest Zip Code — has some concerns about multifamily zoning. https://www.curbed.com/2023/02/steph-curry-nimby-housing-crisis.html

[transit-fag]

Now you may be wondering, how do we fix my shitty little suburb, well, we start by running a rail line through the center of it and then upzoning the hell out of it, I'm talking removing height restrictions entirely and as well as that we allow the opening of businesses in residential lots, and start building bike lanes down the main thoroughfares to act as feeders for the rail station, if we do all of this, the suburb should start improving

[mariacallous]

Housing and homelessness, cost of living, crime, condition of the streets and public places - these have been major issues everywhere, but especially in NYC. And people are sick of high taxes in NYC (and NYS) and asking "what do I get for all that?"

A council seat in the Bronx switched to the Republicans (for the first time in 40 years) because of a tough-on-crime and anti-upzoning stance and opposition to an affordable housing development project.

[centrally-unplanned]

Since yesterday I was primarily critiquing the ridiculous media & politician responses to the recent wave of Ivy protests, lets attack the protestors today! Wtf Columbia:

If you want me to take you seriously can you stop equating real estate developments projects in Harlem with apartheid? Can you put down the NIMBY bong for like five seconds and listen to yourselves? What, do you think a Free Palestine wouldn't have real estate companies that buy land and build things?

To move beyond the dunk, you need to be serious about these things - do you want change or don't you? Because if you were being serious about prioritizing the plight of the Palestinian people you would be happy to welcome as many allies who are involved in upzoning 145th street as you could muster. You would have focused demands on Columbia, separating out things that are achievable (divestment by Columbia from Israeli companies & universities, sure I think that doesn't help but w/e you think it does, that is fine) with things are very obviously neither realistic (""""reparations"""" for Columbia's development projects in fucking Manhattan lol) nor relevant to your goals.

And ofc they are actually serious, they are not in the main "signaling" or being deceptive, they authentically believe in their vision. They just have really bad models of change and it hamstrings them.

[argumate]

Key to the YIMBY manifesto is the idea that a restrictive planning system, including existing height and heritage controls, is blocking a potential deluge of apartment construction in inner and middle Melbourne that – if allowed – would force down prices and rents.

Its main report, The Missing Middle, calls for mass “upzoning” to allow “Paris-style” six-storey development on all residential land within one kilometre of train stations or 500 metres of tram stops, and for a review and rollback of heritage overlays.

[eightyonekilograms]

A couple people have mentioned this in the notes of the previous posts, but I should append to my anti-left-NIMBY rant that their wrongness is not a question of how far left they are. Seattle's socialist party and Kshama Sawant explicitly support upzoning and more apartments, and in this position they tend to be fighting against the city's more centrist Democrats from NIMBY-heavy areas like Magnolia. I don't know how and why we got the smart socialists as compared to San Francisco's really dumb socialists, but I'm grateful for it.

Left-NIMBYs aren't wrong because they're too far to the left, they're wrong because they refuse to learn how housing actually works and inadvertently align themselves with the interests of capital. There are a bunch of smarter and more effective leftists out there.

[witchofanguish]

a lot of the discussion around urbanism can get very annoying when people go all-or-nothing about it, because 100 story three mile wide buildings, beautiful as they may be, aren't necessary to solve the issue of housing scarcity and car dependency! In the cities you want to build tall, but outside of city centers you can build say, row houses or smaller, 3-5 story apartment buildings nestled between dispersed commercial districts and connected to other parts of the city through transit and end up with a beautiful, walkable neighborhood. They exist now! It's just that those areas cost 50 billion dollars to live in because they're incredibly desirable and there's not enough of them.

I understand the 100 story building may just be a rhetorical flourish, but I don't think any solution to the housing crisis will be done through exclusively the use of high density building, it's going to have to be done through upzoning outer suburban areas as well.

[righthandarm-man]

sorry about your boyfriend. the city upzoned him and now he's a low rise apartment with a ground floor grocery store. yeah he's really close to mass transit and he's housing way more people than he ever could as a single family mcmansion. yeah, it's a huge boon to the surrounding community