Whoever pulls that car out of the lake will be hailed as the rightful mayor of the city.

What about middle and high school? The sad fact is that as long as you have education-focused parents with the means (wealth) to remove themselves from poor students, they will continue to do so, and currently that means moving away from the poor students. Implementing school choice would remove the necessity of moving away.

take my angry upvote XD

well if it's broken already, how it supposed to brake?

I think that answer is changing rapidly, fan museum district with high housing prices lead to good schools.

Suburbs having good schools and cheap housing IMO is a dying concept. High housing prices means good schools. Infrastructure costs are getting to the suburbs now.

Look at great schools for elementary some of the best schools in the metro area in city limits and the numbers are improving, if I had a kid now I would send them in the city rather than out for the express purpose of better school future.

> mean why don't we have more 2,000 sq ft row houses from this century that are actually urban?

Schools. Make school choice a thing and you'll see young families flock back to urban areas and desire those 2k sq ft houses.

Made a couple of wrong turns leaving Bamboo...

is Michael Scott visiting?

Columbus is trying to drive his way out?

Darwinism

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That's why I'm mostly talking about free market elements here, because that's the audience that needs convincing.

It's also a simple let me not compete for your suburban house and let me buy a row house in the fan for a more affordable price.

Land value tax is better economically. The 30 year mortgage was invented by the FDR administration. Zoning is not the free market etc.

My experience has been that yimby nerds like myself are all democrats. My repub relatives all seem to be indifferent or uninterested in the topic, and at least notionally for "the free market"

mistakes were made

It's actually a pretty nice town, cost aside

what's the color of your energy?

311 was an inside job!

Small price to pay to avoid goose nibbles on your taint.

I think it's strange democrats have taken up the issue, I hope they can convince Republicans that regulations can keep us down.

they'd probably be down

From the zoning code for TOD-1 the most dense and similar to the fan.

> A front yard of at least ten feet shall be required. In no case shall a front yard with a depth greater than fifteen feet be permitted, except as may be authorized pursuant to paragraphs (2) or (3) of this subdivision.

That radically changes the look of neighborhoods. Many homes don't have a 10 ft front yard.

>(2) Side yards. No side yards shall be required, except that where a side lot line abuts or is situated across an alley from property in an R district there shall be a side yard of not less than 20 feet in width. >3) Rear yard. No rear yard shall be required, except that where a rear lot line abuts or is situated across an alley from property in an R district there shall be a rear yard of not less than 20 feet in depth.

20 ft is enough room for an entire carriage house here, especially if it has a couple of stories.

>In the TOD-1 transit-oriented nodal district, a usable open space ratio of not less than 0.10 shall be provided for newly constructed buildings or portions thereof devoted to dwelling uses.

You can't build on 10% of the property.

TOD-1 is not in a large part of this city. The regulations have kept us from building up keeping prices down.

How do you explain why housing prices were flat from 1890-1980 and housing completed has fallen by a lot? IDK why it's inconceivable that we build as much housing as a nation with 2/3 the population.

This is with the zoning reforms from 5 years ago.

I hope the chocolate turtles and honey roasted cashews are OK.

~80% of northside is zoned for SFH only with massive setbacks and side yards. There’s a lot of room for development that doesn’t have to be the cheap and massive 5/1s that you see in only those specific neighborhoods. Especially ginter, laburnum, and Sherwood park neighborhoods could use to be more like the fan or even other parts of their own neighborhoods.

Like the Canopy at Ginter Park looks like about 300 units over 14ish acres for about ~21 units per acre. There’s many places here northside that are less than 2 units per acre.

Allowing similar levels of density by right wouldn’t change things overnight (you need to have lots sell to developers and let them build and that takes time) but over time would help densify the city more and also bring some more affordability to wealthy neighborhoods.

Forwarding is what your grandma does with chain emails. I'm pretty sure you are thinking of flooring.