Well said piece. I'd also add in addition to SFH being the dominant way, we could still loosen requirements for vendors and retail and other small businesses in and around SFH neighborhoods. Let other people have different housing AND give the up and coming strivers a chance to run a micro-small business that might just make your neighborhood nicer.
Absolutely, I think part of my broader thesis that I'm trying to get at is how "pluralism" is basically fractal, and that broadly and at different levels of generality the same principle of not just respecting but celebrating different values opens doors to a lot of healthy feedback loops, and we *really* need some of those in society these days...
Two important aspects of zoning are constrains on built forms and land uses. But this paper also considers how zoning regulates households and families:
Well said piece. I'd also add in addition to SFH being the dominant way, we could still loosen requirements for vendors and retail and other small businesses in and around SFH neighborhoods. Let other people have different housing AND give the up and coming strivers a chance to run a micro-small business that might just make your neighborhood nicer.
Absolutely, I think part of my broader thesis that I'm trying to get at is how "pluralism" is basically fractal, and that broadly and at different levels of generality the same principle of not just respecting but celebrating different values opens doors to a lot of healthy feedback loops, and we *really* need some of those in society these days...
Two important aspects of zoning are constrains on built forms and land uses. But this paper also considers how zoning regulates households and families:
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/zoned-out