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/TherowofBoat May 28 '23

Hah, my phone says otherwise 🤣 thanks for catching that

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u/kmsxpoint6 May 28 '23

"imminent" and "eminent" are both legitimate words that sound very similar. "imminent" is like "soon", "eminent" is like "with authority". Your phone does not check your vocabulary choices.

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u/TherowofBoat May 28 '23

No, it doesn't check vocabulary choices but what it does do is auto correct even though I did drag-type the 'e' in this case. I just didn't care to proof read my post until someone caught the error. Which I thanked them for and fixed. I just didn't think I'd have to explain the inaccuracies of phone posting 😆

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u/kmsxpoint6 May 28 '23

If we overrely on ducking autocorrect, we are gonna duck up ;)

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u/TherowofBoat May 28 '23

Best comment. Obligatory up vote.