#zoninglaws — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, Walnut Creek: where the dream of a 3-bedroom apartment with a playground is as elusive as a unicorn riding a bicycle 🚴‍♂️🦄. Apparently, zoning laws are the real MVPs here, ensuring that any new construction is as financially feasible as building a Lego castle with no bricks. But hey, at least Kevin Burke is available for hire!
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/walnut-creek-single-stair/ #WalnutCreek #HousingDreams #ZoningLaws #KevinBurke #UnicornBicycle #ApartmentHunt #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, Walnut Creek: where the dream of a 3-bedroom apartment with a playground is as elusive as a unicorn riding a bicycle 🚴‍♂️🦄. Apparently, zoning laws are the real MVPs here, ensuring that any new construction is as financially feasible as building a Lego castle with no bricks. But hey, at least Kevin Burke is available for hire!
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/walnut-creek-single-stair/ #WalnutCreek #HousingDreams #ZoningLaws #KevinBurke #UnicornBicycle #ApartmentHunt #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, Walnut Creek: where the dream of a 3-bedroom apartment with a playground is as elusive as a unicorn riding a bicycle 🚴‍♂️🦄. Apparently, zoning laws are the real MVPs here, ensuring that any new construction is as financially feasible as building a Lego castle with no bricks. But hey, at least Kevin Burke is available for hire!
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/walnut-creek-single-stair/ #WalnutCreek #HousingDreams #ZoningLaws #KevinBurke #UnicornBicycle #ApartmentHunt #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, Walnut Creek: where the dream of a 3-bedroom apartment with a playground is as elusive as a unicorn riding a bicycle 🚴‍♂️🦄. Apparently, zoning laws are the real MVPs here, ensuring that any new construction is as financially feasible as building a Lego castle with no bricks. But hey, at least Kevin Burke is available for hire!
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/walnut-creek-single-stair/ #WalnutCreek #HousingDreams #ZoningLaws #KevinBurke #UnicornBicycle #ApartmentHunt #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, Walnut Creek: where the dream of a 3-bedroom apartment with a playground is as elusive as a unicorn riding a bicycle 🚴‍♂️🦄. Apparently, zoning laws are the real MVPs here, ensuring that any new construction is as financially feasible as building a Lego castle with no bricks. But hey, at least Kevin Burke is available for hire!
https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/walnut-creek-single-stair/ #WalnutCreek #HousingDreams #ZoningLaws #KevinBurke #UnicornBicycle #ApartmentHunt #HackerNews #ngated

RAMSHACKLE DWELLING VANISHES UNDER OFFICIAL SCRUTINY IN CHINA

A unique 10-story building, inspired by Studio Ghibli, was demolished in China. Find out why and what happens next.

#ChinaBuilding, #GhibliStyle, #Demolition, #UrbanDevelopment, #ZoningLaws

https://newsletter.tf/china-demolishes-10-story-ghibli-style-building/

A 10-story building, designed to look like Studio Ghibli animations, has been torn down by officials in China. The reason for its demolition is not yet clear.

#ChinaBuilding, #GhibliStyle, #Demolition, #UrbanDevelopment, #ZoningLaws
https://newsletter.tf/china-demolishes-10-story-ghibli-style-building/

RE: https://urbanists.social/@Streetsweeper/116341614455296369

Zoning laws do function like this -- they increase car dependence. But that's not all they do. Laws are tools, and tools only very rarely have just one capability. Tools created to solve one problem are often repurposed to solve many others. For instance, hammers were invented hundreds of thousands of years before nails, but now driving nails is a common use of hammers.

Laws are different from hammers in at least one important sense. Almost everyone who has a problem that a hammer can solve has access to hammers and the ability to use them. Laws, on the other hand, can only be created and can only be used by a very small group of people -- the ruling class. [1]

So as in this article, the ruling class uses zoning to increase car dependence because they make money from it in a variety of ways -- car sales, gasoline sales, oil, etc. But car dependence serves other purposes -- it makes people easier to track, to control, etc

And increasing car dependence is not the only ruling class solution provided by zoning. Zoning laws prevent people from running businesses out of their homes, increasing the likelihood that they'll have to work for wages -- without wage laborers capitalism would collapse. Zoning laws also prevent tenants from sharing rentals to the full extent possible, so more rental units get rented. Without a steady supply of tenants the landlord business -- quintessential capitalism -- would collapse.

Zoning laws also allow local governments to take houses away from their putative owners -- can't afford to fix your fences, keep your lawn mowed, keep your house painted, etc, and the city will fine you until you comply. Can't afford to pay? They'll take your house. Eventually it gets sold to someone else and both the city and your mortgage holder make money.

I'm sure that many of these uses weren't foreseeable when modern zoning was invented, but as I said, tools are continually repurposed to solve new problems. Since effectively only the ruling class is able to create laws and to use them effectively they get repurposed for their benefit.

Attributing purposes to tools rather than to those who wield them is a common fallacy, and it leads to serious analytic errors. When people say that the purpose e.g. of police is to protect people and that we just need to get them back to this original use -- in other words advocating for reform -- they're falling into this trap. Look at the capabilities of police, remember that those capabilities can be directed in many ways and only the ruling class is able to decide how the police are used, and it becomes clear that reform is a pipe dream.

#Zoning #ZoningLaws #ACAB #Abolition #Tools #ToolTheory #Capitalism #WageLabor #Landlords

[1] Sometimes people who aren't in the ruling class manage to use laws to their advantage, but these are edge cases. Not only that, but the very possibility of non-rulers using laws serves as one of capitalism's many safety valves. When it does happen it relieves pressure from below and capitalism lives another day. Such cases are also examples of the ruling class using the laws

RE: https://urbanists.social/@Streetsweeper/116341614455296369

Zoning laws do function like this -- they increase car dependence. But that's not all they do. Laws are tools, and tools only very rarely have just one capability. Tools created to solve one problem are often repurposed to solve many others. For instance, hammers were invented hundreds of thousands of years before nails, but now driving nails is a common use of hammers.

Laws are different from hammers in at least one important sense. Almost everyone who has a problem that a hammer can solve has access to hammers and the ability to use them. Laws, on the other hand, can only be created and can only be used by a very small group of people -- the ruling class. [1]

So as in this article, the ruling class uses zoning to increase car dependence because they make money from it in a variety of ways -- car sales, gasoline sales, oil, etc. But car dependence serves other purposes -- it makes people easier to track, to control, etc

And increasing car dependence is not the only ruling class solution provided by zoning. Zoning laws prevent people from running businesses out of their homes, increasing the likelihood that they'll have to work for wages -- without wage laborers capitalism would collapse. Zoning laws also prevent tenants from sharing rentals to the full extent possible, so more rental units get rented. Without a steady supply of tenants the landlord business -- quintessential capitalism -- would collapse.

Zoning laws also allow local governments to take houses away from their putative owners -- can't afford to fix your fences, keep your lawn mowed, keep your house painted, etc, and the city will fine you until you comply. Can't afford to pay? They'll take your house. Eventually it gets sold to someone else and both the city and your mortgage holder make money.

I'm sure that many of these uses weren't foreseeable when modern zoning was invented, but as I said, tools are continually repurposed to solve new problems. Since effectively only the ruling class is able to create laws and to use them effectively they get repurposed for their benefit.

Attributing purposes to tools rather than to those who wield them is a common fallacy, and it leads to serious analytic errors. When people say that the purpose e.g. of police is to protect people and that we just need to get them back to this original use -- in other words advocating for reform -- they're falling into this trap. Look at the capabilities of police, remember that those capabilities can be directed in many ways and only the ruling class is able to decide how the police are used, and it becomes clear that reform is a pipe dream.

#Zoning #ZoningLaws #ACAB #Abolition #Tools #ToolTheory #Capitalism #WageLabor #Landlords

[1] Sometimes people who aren't in the ruling class manage to use laws to their advantage, but these are edge cases. Not only that, but the very possibility of non-rulers using laws serves as one of capitalism's many safety valves. When it does happen it relieves pressure from below and capitalism lives another day. Such cases are also examples of the ruling class using the laws

RE: https://urbanists.social/@Streetsweeper/116341614455296369

Zoning laws do function like this -- they increase car dependence. But that's not all they do. Laws are tools, and tools only very rarely have just one capability. Tools created to solve one problem are often repurposed to solve many others. For instance, hammers were invented hundreds of thousands of years before nails, but now driving nails is a common use of hammers.

Laws are different from hammers in at least one important sense. Almost everyone who has a problem that a hammer can solve has access to hammers and the ability to use them. Laws, on the other hand, can only be created and can only be used by a very small group of people -- the ruling class. [1]

So as in this article, the ruling class uses zoning to increase car dependence because they make money from it in a variety of ways -- car sales, gasoline sales, oil, etc. But car dependence serves other purposes -- it makes people easier to track, to control, etc

And increasing car dependence is not the only ruling class solution provided by zoning. Zoning laws prevent people from running businesses out of their homes, increasing the likelihood that they'll have to work for wages -- without wage laborers capitalism would collapse. Zoning laws also prevent tenants from sharing rentals to the full extent possible, so more rental units get rented. Without a steady supply of tenants the landlord business -- quintessential capitalism -- would collapse.

Zoning laws also allow local governments to take houses away from their putative owners -- can't afford to fix your fences, keep your lawn mowed, keep your house painted, etc, and the city will fine you until you comply. Can't afford to pay? They'll take your house. Eventually it gets sold to someone else and both the city and your mortgage holder make money.

I'm sure that many of these uses weren't foreseeable when modern zoning was invented, but as I said, tools are continually repurposed to solve new problems. Since effectively only the ruling class is able to create laws and to use them effectively they get repurposed for their benefit.

Attributing purposes to tools rather than to those who wield them is a common fallacy, and it leads to serious analytic errors. When people say that the purpose e.g. of police is to protect people and that we just need to get them back to this original use -- in other words advocating for reform -- they're falling into this trap. Look at the capabilities of police, remember that those capabilities can be directed in many ways and only the ruling class is able to decide how the police are used, and it becomes clear that reform is a pipe dream.

#Zoning #ZoningLaws #ACAB #Abolition #Tools #ToolTheory #Capitalism #WageLabor #Landlords

[1] Sometimes people who aren't in the ruling class manage to use laws to their advantage, but these are edge cases. Not only that, but the very possibility of non-rulers using laws serves as one of capitalism's many safety valves. When it does happen it relieves pressure from below and capitalism lives another day. Such cases are also examples of the ruling class using the laws

RE: https://urbanists.social/@Streetsweeper/116341614455296369

Zoning laws do function like this -- they increase car dependence. But that's not all they do. Laws are tools, and tools only very rarely have just one capability. Tools created to solve one problem are often repurposed to solve many others. For instance, hammers were invented hundreds of thousands of years before nails, but now driving nails is a common use of hammers.

Laws are different from hammers in at least one important sense. Almost everyone who has a problem that a hammer can solve has access to hammers and the ability to use them. Laws, on the other hand, can only be created and can only be used by a very small group of people -- the ruling class. [1]

So as in this article, the ruling class uses zoning to increase car dependence because they make money from it in a variety of ways -- car sales, gasoline sales, oil, etc. But car dependence serves other purposes -- it makes people easier to track, to control, etc

And increasing car dependence is not the only ruling class solution provided by zoning. Zoning laws prevent people from running businesses out of their homes, increasing the likelihood that they'll have to work for wages -- without wage laborers capitalism would collapse. Zoning laws also prevent tenants from sharing rentals to the full extent possible, so more rental units get rented. Without a steady supply of tenants the landlord business -- quintessential capitalism -- would collapse.

Zoning laws also allow local governments to take houses away from their putative owners -- can't afford to fix your fences, keep your lawn mowed, keep your house painted, etc, and the city will fine you until you comply. Can't afford to pay? They'll take your house. Eventually it gets sold to someone else and both the city and your mortgage holder make money.

I'm sure that many of these uses weren't foreseeable when modern zoning was invented, but as I said, tools are continually repurposed to solve new problems. Since effectively only the ruling class is able to create laws and to use them effectively they get repurposed for their benefit.

Attributing purposes to tools rather than to those who wield them is a common fallacy, and it leads to serious analytic errors. When people say that the purpose e.g. of police is to protect people and that we just need to get them back to this original use -- in other words advocating for reform -- they're falling into this trap. Look at the capabilities of police, remember that those capabilities can be directed in many ways and only the ruling class is able to decide how the police are used, and it becomes clear that reform is a pipe dream.

#Zoning #ZoningLaws #ACAB #Abolition #Tools #ToolTheory #Capitalism #WageLabor #Landlords

[1] Sometimes people who aren't in the ruling class manage to use laws to their advantage, but these are edge cases. Not only that, but the very possibility of non-rulers using laws serves as one of capitalism's many safety valves. When it does happen it relieves pressure from below and capitalism lives another day. Such cases are also examples of the ruling class using the laws

RE: https://urbanists.social/@Streetsweeper/116341614455296369

Zoning laws do function like this -- they increase car dependence. But that's not all they do. Laws are tools, and tools only very rarely have just one capability. Tools created to solve one problem are often repurposed to solve many others. For instance, hammers were invented hundreds of thousands of years before nails, but now driving nails is a common use of hammers.

Laws are different from hammers in at least one important sense. Almost everyone who has a problem that a hammer can solve has access to hammers and the ability to use them. Laws, on the other hand, can only be created and can only be used by a very small group of people -- the ruling class. [1]

So as in this article, the ruling class uses zoning to increase car dependence because they make money from it in a variety of ways -- car sales, gasoline sales, oil, etc. But car dependence serves other purposes -- it makes people easier to track, to control, etc

And increasing car dependence is not the only ruling class solution provided by zoning. Zoning laws prevent people from running businesses out of their homes, increasing the likelihood that they'll have to work for wages -- without wage laborers capitalism would collapse. Zoning laws also prevent tenants from sharing rentals to the full extent possible, so more rental units get rented. Without a steady supply of tenants the landlord business -- quintessential capitalism -- would collapse.

Zoning laws also allow local governments to take houses away from their putative owners -- can't afford to fix your fences, keep your lawn mowed, keep your house painted, etc, and the city will fine you until you comply. Can't afford to pay? They'll take your house. Eventually it gets sold to someone else and both the city and your mortgage holder make money.

I'm sure that many of these uses weren't foreseeable when modern zoning was invented, but as I said, tools are continually repurposed to solve new problems. Since effectively only the ruling class is able to create laws and to use them effectively they get repurposed for their benefit.

Attributing purposes to tools rather than to those who wield them is a common fallacy, and it leads to serious analytic errors. When people say that the purpose e.g. of police is to protect people and that we just need to get them back to this original use -- in other words advocating for reform -- they're falling into this trap. Look at the capabilities of police, remember that those capabilities can be directed in many ways and only the ruling class is able to decide how the police are used, and it becomes clear that reform is a pipe dream.

#Zoning #ZoningLaws #ACAB #Abolition #Tools #ToolTheory #Capitalism #WageLabor #Landlords

[1] Sometimes people who aren't in the ruling class manage to use laws to their advantage, but these are edge cases. Not only that, but the very possibility of non-rulers using laws serves as one of capitalism's many safety valves. When it does happen it relieves pressure from below and capitalism lives another day. Such cases are also examples of the ruling class using the laws

Hype for the Future 120H: Single-Family Zoning in Satellite Imagery

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/hype-for-the-future-120h-single-family-zoning-in-satellite-imagery/

Hype for the Future 120H: Single-Family Zoning in Satellite Imagery

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/hype-for-the-future-120h-single-family-zoning-in-satellite-imagery/

Hype for the Future 120H: Single-Family Zoning in Satellite Imagery

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/hype-for-the-future-120h-single-family-zoning-in-satellite-imagery/

Hype for the Future 120H: Single-Family Zoning in Satellite Imagery

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/hype-for-the-future-120h-single-family-zoning-in-satellite-imagery/

Hype for the Future 120H: Single-Family Zoning in Satellite Imagery

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/hype-for-the-future-120h-single-family-zoning-in-satellite-imagery/

"I think it’s fascinating that folks are demanding direct democracy on a 400-page zoning reform and somehow we passed the budget without a single public comment.”

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_98192feb-fc85-4f87-b529-c4058152a631.html

#zoning #zoninglaws #democracy #LasCruces #NewMexico

"I think it’s fascinating that folks are demanding direct democracy on a 400-page zoning reform and somehow we passed the budget without a single public comment.”

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_98192feb-fc85-4f87-b529-c4058152a631.html

#zoning #zoninglaws #democracy #LasCruces #NewMexico

"I think it’s fascinating that folks are demanding direct democracy on a 400-page zoning reform and somehow we passed the budget without a single public comment.”

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_98192feb-fc85-4f87-b529-c4058152a631.html

#zoning #zoninglaws #democracy #LasCruces #NewMexico

"I think it’s fascinating that folks are demanding direct democracy on a 400-page zoning reform and somehow we passed the budget without a single public comment.”

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_98192feb-fc85-4f87-b529-c4058152a631.html

#zoning #zoninglaws #democracy #LasCruces #NewMexico

Bitter cold shouldn't be an attitude about easing zoning laws. Allowing transitional housing in, next to, or near light industrial parks can solve most homeless problems for all but those unable or unwilling to work. This week's flight of articles is about Quick SET* Transitional Housing, which only requires minor zoning changes. *Shelter, Employ, Transit. Hyperpartisan parrots are great fans of NIMBY. https://policykeys.com/publicpolicyblog/can-a-humble-zoning-change-end-most-homelessness/ #nonpartisan #politics #ZoningLaws #homeless #homelessness

Bitter cold shouldn't be an attitude about easing zoning laws. Allowing transitional housing in, next to, or near light industrial parks can solve most homeless problems for all but those unable or unwilling to work. This week's flight of articles is about Quick SET* Transitional Housing, which only requires minor zoning changes. *Shelter, Employ, Transit. Hyperpartisan parrots are great fans of NIMBY. https://policykeys.com/publicpolicyblog/can-a-humble-zoning-change-end-most-homelessness/ #nonpartisan #politics #ZoningLaws #homeless #homelessness

12 DAYS OF X-MAS FINALE: THE THIRD DAY OF CHRISTMAS: THREE HOME ZONES, two penny mints, and an AM drive in broad daylight. Today's solution ends involuntary homelessness by changing zoning to allow transitional housing apartment buildings In, Next to, or Near light industrial parks so these folks can get on their feet and walk to work. Quick SET Housing provides Shelter, Employment, and easy Transit. https://policykeys.com/publicpolicyblog/third-day-of-christmas-three-home-zones/ Where can we agree? #politics #nonpartisan #ZoningLaws

12 DAYS OF X-MAS FINALE: THE THIRD DAY OF CHRISTMAS: THREE HOME ZONES, two penny mints, and an AM drive in broad daylight. Today's solution ends involuntary homelessness by changing zoning to allow transitional housing apartment buildings In, Next to, or Near light industrial parks so these folks can get on their feet and walk to work. Quick SET Housing provides Shelter, Employment, and easy Transit. https://policykeys.com/publicpolicyblog/third-day-of-christmas-three-home-zones/ Where can we agree? #politics #nonpartisan #ZoningLaws

#Zoning #officer #fired after being asked to 'look into' #DragQueenStoryHour.

#Town #Boardmember #JoeMastroianni told the #employee to #checkout the #event planned for a local #cat #cafe

A week later, the #supervisor #fired her with no #explanation she says.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #Rotterdam #Codes #BuildingCodes #ZoningLaws #PlanningBoard #Hate #Bigotry #Harassment #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/worker-fired-asked-look-into-drag-story-hour-18490767.php

#Zoning #officer #fired after being asked to 'look into' #DragQueenStoryHour.

#Town #Boardmember #JoeMastroianni told the #employee to #checkout the #event planned for a local #cat #cafe

A week later, the #supervisor #fired her with no #explanation she says.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #Rotterdam #Codes #BuildingCodes #ZoningLaws #PlanningBoard #Hate #Bigotry #Harassment #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/worker-fired-asked-look-into-drag-story-hour-18490767.php

#Zoning #officer #fired after being asked to 'look into' #DragQueenStoryHour.

#Town #Boardmember #JoeMastroianni told the #employee to #checkout the #event planned for a local #cat #cafe

A week later, the #supervisor #fired her with no #explanation she says.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #Rotterdam #Codes #BuildingCodes #ZoningLaws #PlanningBoard #Hate #Bigotry #Harassment #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/worker-fired-asked-look-into-drag-story-hour-18490767.php

#Zoning #officer #fired after being asked to 'look into' #DragQueenStoryHour.

#Town #Boardmember #JoeMastroianni told the #employee to #checkout the #event planned for a local #cat #cafe

A week later, the #supervisor #fired her with no #explanation she says.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #Rotterdam #Codes #BuildingCodes #ZoningLaws #PlanningBoard #Hate #Bigotry #Harassment #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/worker-fired-asked-look-into-drag-story-hour-18490767.php

#Zoning #officer #fired after being asked to 'look into' #DragQueenStoryHour.

#Town #Boardmember #JoeMastroianni told the #employee to #checkout the #event planned for a local #cat #cafe

A week later, the #supervisor #fired her with no #explanation she says.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewYork #Rotterdam #Codes #BuildingCodes #ZoningLaws #PlanningBoard #Hate #Bigotry #Harassment #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/worker-fired-asked-look-into-drag-story-hour-18490767.php

Montana’s ‘right to mine’ crypto bill moves closer to passing as law

https://cointelegraph.com/news/montana-s-right-to-mine-crypto-bill-moves-closer-to-passing-as-law

#zoningordinancelaws #discrimination #bitcoinmining #cryptomining #lawproposal #zoninglaws #montana #miners #senate #bill #law

Montana’s ‘right to mine’ crypto bill moves closer to passing as law

https://cointelegraph.com/news/montana-s-right-to-mine-crypto-bill-moves-closer-to-passing-as-law

#zoningordinancelaws #discrimination #bitcoinmining #cryptomining #lawproposal #zoninglaws #montana #miners #senate #bill #law

@koherecoWatchdog
They assume that the #shops are zoned where they need to be and in some cases they are correct but its also important not to stifle innovation in #residentialZones, especially innovation that clearly grows organically.

In residential zones there can be valid noise, lighting, and pollution concerns.

#residentailZoning #zoning #zoningLaws
@mangeurdenuage