Now you may be wondering, how do we fix my shitty little suburb, well, we start by running a rail line through the center of it and then upzoning the hell out of it, I'm talking removing height restrictions entirely and as well as that we allow the opening of businesses in residential lots, and start building bike lanes down the main thoroughfares to act as feeders for the rail station, if we do all of this, the suburb should start improving
Aren't height restrictions supposed to be determined by structural integrity of the ground? Like that's the "justification" I've seen most often in bylaws.
Why DO those exist anyway and why don't they seem to exist in California downtowns west of the fault lines?
They are supposed to be for that and sometimes they are because of soil quality or faults or a need of lighting but usually, they’re there to enforce a low density of a neighborhood from what I have seen.
