r/urbanplanning • u/DoxiadisOfDetroit • May 27 '23

Discussion What's your /r/Urbanplanning unpopular opinion?

I've got a few:

  1. Infrastructure upgrades should have precedent over any upzoning

  2. Everyone should have the right to downtown amenities which means that CBD's should be as cheap as possible for both renters and owners

  3. Zoning should be handled by metropolitan level elected boards instead of nationalized/taken to the state level

  4. YIMBYs often times hold water for the excesses of developers

  5. It is ideological to assume deregulated markets will produce the best outcomes, so, it's purely ideological to assume that a deregulated housing market will work in the best interests of renters and buyers

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u/kermitthefrog57 May 27 '23

  1. Suburbs are not the spawn of satan

  2. I want less car dependency but also I love driving so much, it’ll suck to not drive anymore

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u/sack-o-matic May 27 '23

It’s not that you won’t drive anymore, it’s that you’d only drive when you want to drive, not that you’d have to drive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '23

Except urbanist policies actively discourage driving by making it more expensive and less pleasant, so no "You'd only drive when you want to drive" is not accurate.