Lawmakers in California say the state's pattern of single-family zoning is boosting carbon emissions."They want to eliminate single-family zoning, bringing who knows into your suburbs," Trump said on a July campaign call., the focus on single-family homes has touched on a contentious debate in a growing number of communities. Around the country, cities and states are grappling with how zoning rules have deeply codified racial inequity and exacerbated climate change.
Looking to address the legacy of racism and the threat of climate change, some communities are remaking their zoning laws. Minneapolis and Oregon recently passed new"upzoning" codes allowing duplexes or triplexes in areas once zoned as single-family and encouraging denser development around transit and jobs.
"I think climate change is one of the real serious issues that we have to deal with," says Susan Kirsch, a community organizer in Mill Valley, Calif."But I don't think we need to be forcing draconian measures, taking away local control and local preferences, to be able to solve that problem." Kirsch's neighborhood is exactly the kind targeted for zoning change. She lives in a walkable area within a quarter-mile of a bus stop and close to a bank and grocery store. Right now, city zoning only allows single-family homes there.proposed last year, single-family zoning in places such as Mill Valley would be opened up to duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes.
The rich live in cities too, and are just as NIMBY as their suburban counterparts.
That Kirsch woman sounds like an absolutely horrible person.
Nothing wrong with single-family zoning. Rather fascist to tell people what density they must live in.
Coding has to balance green space and density, plus available transportation, shopping, schools, medical, LE, fire, water & sewage, and utility infrastructure. Local issues. Re-imagining it needs to happen in a smart and coherent way, or you're just creating slums.
If ONLY Climate Change Existed? It Doesn't!
because they're environmentally progressive racists.
Isn’t it insane that overpopulation is never talked about in these discussions? If my bathtub is overflowing, I don’t use buckets to bail, I TURN off the water. Want to stop sprawl, resource depletion, turn off the baby flow!
Looking at you Davis CA!!! Davis UCDavis UCD
There's nothing progressive about being a progressive. Never has been. Never will be.
Progressivism usually stops where your nose begins -- good for those the other people, but not for you.
Maybe if we weren't adding well over 1 MILLION legal immigrants alone into the country every year, we wouldn't have a housing problem? Too complicated?
FitzTheReporter California coastal democrats are disproportionately bourgeois and two-faced on these issues. The question may be much more fundamental: Do you believe in the concept of regulating an area for the people who already own it or not? (this naturally benefits the rich)
Has the pandemic not taught you anything? It's NOT good to live on top of each other with an easily transmitted virus. It's one big petri dish. Stop being stupid. We just wanna socially distance
Higher density housing doesn't make it any more affordable. Check who is driving the re-zoning through lobbying efforts. Developers & Unions. The one-dimensional approach of build baby build is ineffective in solving the many issues involved
Its only a matter of time that white persons later deaths will be tied to racial inequality.
Yes let’s add thousands upon thousands more sinks, toilets and showers to a drought stricken state. That seems wise. 🙄
We do need to build up, but we should also discuss middle-ground options. Lot footprints of 100+ years ago were more modest. Or cottage & courtyard plans. Use empty lots in light industrial areas (auto repair rows). High-speed rail to new hubs too far for car commute. I’ve more…
Sprawl is a problem, folks have to get back to society .
The auto equating hostility to new zoning being hostility to opening their communities up to housing that would bring people with diverse background is wrong; fails to consider other reasons and tells us more about the speaker and the reporter
Yawn
Seems like mass immigration to the US and trade policies would be a far greater threat to higher carbon emissions.
Hey, NPR. I'm European heterosexual male. I'm your worst nightmare. Your boogeyman 😱👻😂
should've been the first.... but better late than never I suppose.
Expand out, not up.
Karen likes her street with no cars on it.
Sprawl is bad
Man's impact on the land has cause the spread of: The Black Death Dust Bowl And now the Trump Virus. Will we ever learn.
Single family homes are now racist
Why are you acting like Urban planners and preservationists haven't been saying this for years
Finally, covers race, inequity, and climate change. I mean it's been what, 45 minutes, since you last broached those topics. DoBetter
NPR finds everything 'racist' because it fits the pro-Biden narrative they want to push. Climate change is modest, slow, and can be mitigated against without cancelling air travel like Joe Biden will do if he is elected. As Biden cheerleaders - why does NPR get public funds?
This is b.s. progressive propaganda. Single family communities is the foundation of America! The suburban dream. If you start dumping multi-family homes and even apartment complexes in the middle of quiet neighborhoods, you will destroy America!
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