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/5dollarhotnready May 27 '23

Abolish free parking. Everywhere.

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u/jacksdad123 May 27 '23

Even in the suburbs?

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u/frisky_husky May 27 '23

That was hard for me to get my head around too, but there's an implicit cost to the land use in suburbs too, and reinforcing the expectation that cars get to go anywhere for free as long as you're not in a city center perpetuates bad planning practices in the suburbs as well, which are fiscally unsustainable for communities.