Mastodawn

#2. Land Use Laws Favor Sprawl

Zoning laws such as single-family only land uses and minimum lot sizes have served to spread the distance between where people live and where they want to go, forcing them into lifestyles that are almost totally dependent on driving. In addition, zoning laws frequently restrict housing density and limit mixed-use buildings, which blend retail and residential.

Result, walkable housing and retail are effectively outlawed in much of America.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/06/heres-how-driving-is-encouraged-and-subsidized-by-law

How Driving is Encouraged and Subsidized — By Law — Streetsblog USA

Greg Shill, a law professor, attempted to itemize all the ways driving is legally favored in the U.S. Let's just say it's a long list.

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NashvilleGuy

@Streetsweeper And walkable neighborhoods with housing, retail, schools... generally have expensive housing. At least they do here in #Nashville (East Nash, Hillsboro Village, Sylvan Park...). They were developed before the hegemony of the car. #UrbanPlanning #walking #sustainability

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Lexington Streetsweeper 6h ago

@nashvilleguy "They were developed before the hegemony of the car" and they were developed, in Lexington, as strictly residential subdivisions. They evolved into places with the mixed uses of retail, schools and middle densities just about the introduction of the private auto. It took several more decades to prohibit them from existing at all. Housing costs are high due to desirability.