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[meme] Part of my ongoing efforts to rebrand urbanist ideas as patriotic and pro-freedom (which they unironically are) (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Fried_out_Kombi to c/fuckcars

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean mixed use buildings still have to be approved by the city and meet building codes.

[–] Mirshe 16 points 6 months ago

Yeah, the big issue with saying "it's your land do what you want" is that you start getting wildly-unsafe buildings and situations because "it's my land I can do whatever" rapidly turns into "and I want to build something highly unsafe to live in because it's cheap to do so". This is how you wind up with tenement housing where one apartment catches fire and a hundred people burn to death because nobody forced the builder to consider evacuation routes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, you can't build like a refinery and a parking garage next to a school. That kind of development is how you get Houston.

[–] ch00f 13 points 6 months ago

Ironically, Texas still enforces minimum parking requirements.