{"id":16351,"date":"2013-05-07T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2013-05-07T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:14:56","slug":"reason-magazine-how-established-homeowners-use-regulations-to-stop-new-low-cost-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16351\/reason-magazine-how-established-homeowners-use-regulations-to-stop-new-low-cost-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason Magazine: “How established homeowners use regulations to stop new low-cost homes.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not mentioned in the Reason<\/em> article, but the real curse of zoning is the prohibition of innovation. By forbidding all projects, land-use tyrants exclude not just the dreck but also the sheer genius. Some builder coud have come up with the modern equivalent of Wright’s Five-Thousand Dollar Home, but that guy works in software instead, where innovation is celebrated and rewarded.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the hard consequences of coercive land-use regulations:<\/a><\/p>\n

When a news crew showed up to film a public meeting in tony Darien, Connecticut, in 2005, some of the residents were less than thrilled. “Why don’t you fucking shoot something else?” one demanded. Hundreds crammed into the hearing, sneering and jeering during the presentation.<\/p>\n

The fresh hell residents showed up to protest? A proposal to replace a nondescript single-family home on a one-acre lot with 20 condos for senior citizens.<\/p>\n

In Snob Zones, journalist Lisa Prevost describes the heights of entitlement to which property owners ascend when faced with the prospect of new development, especially multi-family dwellings in neighborhoods dominated by single-family homes. Prevost tours New England and finds an aging, declining populace bent on excluding outsiders. In town after town, affluent and working-class alike, residents line up to shout down new development no matter how modest.<\/p>\n

In Darien, the need for the proposed project was clear; the town’s senior housing center had a long wait list, as did the last condo development built in the area (in 1994). Still, many townsfolk, expecting the project to open the floodgates to more high-density projects in the resolutely low-density burgh, were incensed.<\/p>\n

Incumbent homeowners have a powerful weapon for vetoing change: zoning. In Darien and other exclusive zip codes, mandated minimum lot sizes kneecap developers who want to build something other than super-sized homes. In the process, they put entire towns out of reach for all but the wealthy. In hardscrabble Ossippee, New Hampshire, where it’s not uncommon for the working poor to live in tents during the summer months to save on rent, the zoning code flatly prohibits new apartment buildings.<\/p>\n

Though Prevost, who covers the real estate beat for The New York Times, has no problem with Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not mentioned in the Reason article, but the real curse of zoning is the prohibition of innovation. By forbidding all projects, land-use tyrants exclude not just the dreck but also the sheer genius. Some builder coud have come up with the modern equivalent of Wright’s Five-Thousand Dollar Home, but that guy works in software […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,379,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-innovation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15163,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15163\/the-reason-for-boundless-optimism\/","url_meta":{"origin":16351,"position":0},"title":"The Reason for Boundless Optimism","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"September 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The space was filled at the moment of the tipping point. 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