After I put up the post this weekend about a Virginia Tea Party group’s opposition to a state law forcing counties to upzone enough land for medium-density development, I sent an email to Marc Scribner at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian group, asking his opinion on the law. He was kind enough [...]
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February 7th, 2011 | Tags: dc, Virginia, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 5 comments |
 printable viewDavid Alpert at Greater Greater Washington has been on top of a story out of Virginia about a Virginia Tea Party group and its bizarre and seemingly anti-free market opposition to a state law forcing local governments to make room for dense growth. The law – which was passed a few years ago by [...] February 6th, 2011 | Tags: conservatism, dc, Virginia, zoning | Category: Free-market impostors, planning, zoning | 9 comments |
printable view1. A shameless story of rent control in NYC. Glad to see that the city is forcing developers to subsidize wealthy Manhattanites’ Eat, Pray, Love-like dreams of moving to Paris. 2. The travails of getting a bus lane on a busy LA street where “[m]ore people already travel by bus than by car along [...] February 5th, 2011 | Tags: LA, nyc, rent control, zoning | Category: rent control, zoning | Leave a comment |
printable viewIt’s pretty amusing to me that liberals today are still whining about being called “socialists,” considering the charge is at least a century old. Here one example from Robert Fogelson’s excellent Downtown chapter on height restrictions around the turn of the century: The Post voiced especially strong objections to the argument that a [...] December 24th, 2010 | Tags: history, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 12 comments |
printable viewIt’s not often that I find a plan that I can wholeheartedly agree with, but this one from Seattle sounds damn near perfect, at least in terms of marginal change (my emphasis…apologies to Publicola for stealing their content!): 1. Instead of the current generic land-use standards, the new regulations include five different allowed [...] December 2nd, 2010 | Tags: parking, seattle, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments |
printable viewHey guys, before I start this link list, I wanted to ask: Has anybody had trouble posting comments here with Disqus lately? Either you can’t post them, or once you do they disappear? I’ve gotten two complaints in the last few days, so if you’ve been experiencing any problems please don’t hesitate to [...] November 30th, 2010 | Tags: Chicago, dc, externalities, meta, nyc, parking, taxis, transit, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
printable viewWith nothing quick to blog about and not being in the mood to write something long, I dug into the Google Scholar pool for some interesting empirical work, which is something this blog hasn’t featured in a while. This paper shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but it’s interesting empirical work nonetheless [...] November 29th, 2010 | Tags: density, race issues, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments |
printable viewThere are a couple of NYC-related links that I’ve been saving up, so here they are: 1. Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indiannapolis and NYC’s new deputy mayor, appears to be interested in privatizing New York City’s parking meters in order to balance the city’s budget. We’re more interested in the extent to [...] October 6th, 2010 | Tags: links, nyc, parking, Stephen Smith, zoning | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |
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