one thing i noted in Hefei in reference to housing was how they forced the developers to charge cost + 8% making housing very affordable. Thats how they managed to AVOID the Shenzhen property crises
My main objection is that my experience with NIMBY disgust with density is that it’s more general than any one regulation.
Which is what’s made it so sticky of a problem — anything proposed with the goal of increasing density, no matter how gentle, can be accused of absurd conspiracies.
For instance, in my town, we finished a modest rezone a few years ago intended to let downtown continue gentrifying while extremely mildly loosing regulations in the burbs.
The NIMBYs lost their everloving SHIT. Getting the entire town rezoned for ADU’s, and allowing duplexes in a handful of blocks bordering denser zones, was deemed a conspiracy to “double our population”.
I really do try to keep in mind that this is a small and… “vocal” is an understatement… minority. But they wield a lot of power — they were able to get both measures cut in full from the final update.
With that said… these people are nUcKiNg FuTs. Given the power they wield, it’s hard not to conclude that there is no single reform that will ever satisfy them as a compromise, and the only peaceful liberal-democratic solution is to either beat them at the ballot box or “demographically wait them out”, to put it diplomatically.
Looking forward to hearing you speak in Marquette later this year!
one thing i noted in Hefei in reference to housing was how they forced the developers to charge cost + 8% making housing very affordable. Thats how they managed to AVOID the Shenzhen property crises
My main objection is that my experience with NIMBY disgust with density is that it’s more general than any one regulation.
Which is what’s made it so sticky of a problem — anything proposed with the goal of increasing density, no matter how gentle, can be accused of absurd conspiracies.
For instance, in my town, we finished a modest rezone a few years ago intended to let downtown continue gentrifying while extremely mildly loosing regulations in the burbs.
The NIMBYs lost their everloving SHIT. Getting the entire town rezoned for ADU’s, and allowing duplexes in a handful of blocks bordering denser zones, was deemed a conspiracy to “double our population”.
I really do try to keep in mind that this is a small and… “vocal” is an understatement… minority. But they wield a lot of power — they were able to get both measures cut in full from the final update.
With that said… these people are nUcKiNg FuTs. Given the power they wield, it’s hard not to conclude that there is no single reform that will ever satisfy them as a compromise, and the only peaceful liberal-democratic solution is to either beat them at the ballot box or “demographically wait them out”, to put it diplomatically.