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RuanGacho
Jun 20, 2002

"You're gunna break it!"

Here thread, I'll feed you.

Like most of government, the specialization and discussions, are largely opaque to the public, because most citizens just angrily email the local planner that the private property next door just bulldozed all the trees they liked.

https://www.strongtowns.org
http://www.governing.com

http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-flood-zone-floodplain-development-homes-zoning.html

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Everyone knows it's a a bad idea to build new development on flood-prone land, so why do we keep doing it?

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/12/11/immutable-laws-of-affordable-housing

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1.Developers don’t pay the costs of construction; tenants and buyers do.

A developer who doesn’t pass costs on will not be in business for very long. For this reason, anything that makes development more costly for developers makes housing more costly for people. And remember, time is money; a convoluted permitting process makes housing more expensive, too.


https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

quote:

Most American cities find themselves caught in the Growth Ponzi Scheme.

We experience a modest, short term illusion of wealth in exchange for enormous, long term liabilities.

We deprive our communities of prosperity, overload our families with debt and become trapped in a spiral of decline.

This cannot continue.

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RuanGacho
Jun 20, 2002

"You're gunna break it!"

OwlFancier posted:

I mean generally I think you build on floodplains because there's already a major settlement there, owing to access to the water source and good farmland that generally comes with floodplains.

Lol.

At least pretend to read it before you comment, owl.

RuanGacho
Jun 20, 2002

"You're gunna break it!"

The natural market state for unregulated housing markets is Midgar.

"The planet's lyin' Cloud"

RuanGacho fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Aug 19, 2018

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