Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
Excited to see Burgum land a cabinet role in the new administration.
He's a YIMBY abundance guy:
"We invented zoning. And zoning came during the Industrial Revolution when there was a lot of air pollution. People said, "Hey, we're going to have the factories here and the people here, and we got to keep them separate." And then we went even further and said, "Well, here's the kind of homes that can be and retails there."
It was a one dimensional map, and you draw it out and say, everyone, all these four things have got to be separate. And yes, that was great for people that built roads, and was great for the car companies. And then we built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people.
And then if you take a look at your cost, it's a linear feed of sewer and water and sidewalk and roads. And then when you get more of that, you need to have more fire stations. Low income. If you get if you have a neighborhood that's all houses, if you want to have a coffee shop that looks like a house, you should be all of a coffee shop.
Because then people say, "When I leave my starter home, I want to move to a new home. It's got to have three cars, three car garage wise, have three car garage," because the mom, the dad and the kids all got a car to be able to drive to school, drive to church, drive to a restaurant, drive to a grocery store. Of course, you know that because you can't walk to anything.
And then people will go on a vacation, and they'll say, "Wow, that was the most amazing vacation I ever had." Why? Well, because they went to some place where they could walk, and everything was right there. Well, you can actually have that in our own states.
You just have to design and you haven't sent you know, there's places in Northern Europe that have snow where people bike all winter long. You can't hardly you can find a place like that in the US, because we don't put the investment into building the infrastructure for multimodal transportation.
So I think one of the things that that we have to look at as country, our housing costs are high in part because of the way that we've designed our cities. Check out form-based code. There's some really interesting things that are there.
And you guys talked about beginning the granny flats and other stuff, but part of is we've got to get the coffee shop, the barber shop and law firms back into residential neighborhoods in ways that can help lower the cost and create services where you don't need a car for everything."
