Zoning laws haven’t made a particle of difference here in Los Angeles. Our Betters in the City Council and the Mayor’s office simply waive every restriction for anyone who will build the kind of East Coast-model housing our Betters want built.
I live way out in the San Fernando Valley in an LA suburb. A hundred years ago it was orange orchards. Fifty years ago it was single-family homes.
We live here because average people can buy houses. Because we don’t have to live all stacked up like rats in cages. Like in New York. Not to be too obvious, but we don’t want to live like that.
Yet our Betters have decided to build thousands and thousands of teensy apartments with no parking five miles from my house. They’re not open yet, but soon. The scale is jaw dropping. Oh, but it’s “smart housing,” because it’s near the Orange Line, which is a dedicated busway. And is already running at peak capacity.
And this “smart housing” Soviet style collectivism is going on all over the city.
We’re going to give up our cars and houses and live the way they want us to live, whether we like it or not.
Zoning is government telling property owners what to do with their property.
That’s wrong whether they are dictating suburbs or dense urban housing. Either way it’s government getting in the way.
What is so hard to understand about this?
Live where you want and let others do the same. Let the free market work.