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Bill Hudnut at the Urban Land Institute wrote a post that attracted some attention at Austin Contrarian and Overhead Wire. Hudnut discusses a different approach to taxing land: How about restructuring the property tax across America to install a two-tiered system? More tax on those horizontal pieces of empty land and asphalt, less on the buildings. [...] January 22nd, 2009 | Tags: density, development, Jane Jacobs, NIMBY, parking, sprawl | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, planning | Comments |
 printable view43 John Galt Way 27 Mises Street I recently googled upon a post at a blog called “Rub-a-Dub” that mentioned a land development project in Mount Pleasant, SC called I’On. I imagine the developers of the I’On “Traditional Neighborhood Development” (TND) community are sympathetic with Market Urbanism, as they named streets after John Galt (of Ayn [...] January 21st, 2009 | Tags: development, Free-market, I'On, Jane Jacobs, Ludwig Von Mises, Mount Pleasant, New Urbanism, NIMBY, smart growth, Sout Carolina, TND, walkability, zoning | Category: Economics, Jane Jacobs, housing, zoning | Comments |
printable viewWhile well intentioned, like many progressive interventions of the eary 1900s, zoning has contributed to sprawl (which has begun to be demonized by progressives over the recent decades) and served to inhibit the vitality and diversity of urban neighborhoods. The triumph of the core philosophy behind Euclid vs. Ambler later enabled destructive urban renewal projects [...] NIMBYism is the biggest obstacle to the evolution of vibrant urban communities, but the incentives for some to use public forums to impose restrictions on neighboring properties are great. Local politicians often bow to the most vocal residents, often with minority opinions, to avoid making waves, but their impositions are at the expense of [...] This post is part of an ongoing series featured on Market Urbanism called Urbanism Legends. The Urbanism Legends series is intended to expose many of the myths about development and Urban Economics. (it’s a play on the term: “Urban Legends” in case you didn’t catch that) We’ve all heard it said by some NIMBY [...] July 7th, 2008 | Tags: developer, development, Economics, Free-market, greed, Henry Hazlitt, neighorhood, NIMBY, Urban[ism] Legends | Category: Economics, Urban[ism] Legends, zoning | Comments |
printable viewNY Times – Carroll Gardens: The Big Front Yards That Rob the Streets Although the yards serve as leafy margins to the streets, creating ample open space between the rows of brownstones arrayed on either side, they also put those streets into the “wide” category for zoning purposes. This means developers can build structures on those [...] June 4th, 2008 | Tags: brooklyn, carroll gardens, height restriction, NIMBY, setbacks, streets, zoning | Category: zoning | Comments |
printable viewNBC5 has an update listing the people involved and video here: New Corruption Charges Hit Building, Zoning Departments Chicago Tribune: U.S. to announce charges against 15 in city bribe-taking probe Federal authorities are set to announce charges Thursday against 15 people, including seven City of Chicago employees, after an investigation into [...] May 22nd, 2008 | Tags: Chicago, corruption, development, downzoning, NIMBY, politics, property rights, Tony Rezko, zoning | Category: corruption, zoning | Comments |
printable viewAustin Contrarian discusses an article that describes how Seattle has become less affordable in recent years. He prescribes a recipe for Austin to become what he calls a “Superstar City” such as New York, Boston, San Francisco, or Seattle. By “Superstar City”, I assume he means an ultra-hip place where housing prices rise rapidly, NIMBY [...] May 14th, 2008 | Tags: affordability, affordable housing, Austin, density, development, NIMBY, seattle, zoning | Category: zoning | Comments |
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