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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Land Value Tax would fix this

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Removing mandatory parking spaces would also help.

[–] Iron_Lynx 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both of these are likely, and chances are one could lead to the other in at least one direction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there are multiple issues that would need to be fixed.

  • Land value tax would offer a financial incentive not to waste space
  • Mandatory parking space laws currently force businesses to surround themselves with massive parking spots, so removing these laws would allow for more compact building
  • Zoning laws currently often prohibit mixed usage, thus making it impossible to have e.g. accommodation, shops and workplaces in walkable distances
  • The spread-out way of building stuff then causes public transport to become unviable, which in turn makes the car basically mandatory. This is a bit of a chicken-egg-problem since fixing it would require people to move into denser accommodation.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Based Georgist.