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Old Posted Apr 10, 2023, 3:49 PM
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Report: 10 Metros With Most Exclusionary Zoning

Very interesting.

Rank Metropolitan area Zoning Restrictiveness Index score
1 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 2.05
2 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA 2.01
3 Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA 1.81
4 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 1.6
5 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 1.44
6 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 1.27
7 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL 1.2
8 Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI 1.14
9 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH 1.14
10 Springfield, MA 1.01

Here's the link to the article and Report:
https://evictionlab.org/zoning-restrictiveness-index/
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In Seattle's defense, a series of state and local changes should make us look a lot better on this list in short order. Most importantly the state will require all decent-sized cities to allow missing middle housing on every residential lot, assuming passage this spring (followed by actual code updates within a year or so). Seattle and Tacoma have already liberalized their rules in the past few years.
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Surprised no CA cities on the list, considering how little they build.
SF, outside of a few areas, is a borderline time capsule. I guess since this list considers metro areas, it helps CA.
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You can have exclusionary zoning, and still have robust growth. The DC area has had tons of growth/construction over the past few generations, but much of the area apparently has exclusionary zoning. Very little development in Potomac, MD, or the SFH parts of NW DC.
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True. You can still develop commercial areas if that's allowed. That's where the Seattle area puts probably the majority of its growth.
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I am a little surprised after seeing that list.

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You can have exclusionary zoning, and still have robust growth. The DC area has had tons of growth/construction over the past few generations, but much of the area apparently has exclusionary zoning. Very little development in Potomac, MD, or the SFH parts of NW DC.
Exclusionary zoning does generally achieve what it sets out to do: keep the status quo. I would almost say Inclusionary Zoning is more harmful because it targets places that would normally see urban growth and hampers and limits production under the guise of equality.

Portland is the poster child of this: Inclusionary Zoning: Portland Feels The Consequences Of Bad Housing Policy

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Washington State just passed (pending governor's signature) legislation that will require all cities to allow six/four/two-plexes in their single-family zones depending on population and location.

We're also getting rid of the most onerous aspects of design review, streamlining that process.

No luck on requiring cities to ramp up TOD zoning near rail and BRT...hopefully next year.

Jurisdictions will have some time to rewrite their land use codes of course.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/04/...n-legislature/
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Thanks for the link.

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So cities should be planned less like San Francisco and more like Houston? Yeah, no thanks.
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Houston, where even the townhouses are required to have two parking spaces? Correct, hell no.

But really this topic is about neighborhoods being allowed to densify so they can BECOME more like San Franicisco. SF did good things before they shut the doors.
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They aren't just talking about the city of San Francisco, they are talking about the entire MSAs of San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose comparing them to that of Houston. The San Francisco-Oakland-Concord-Antioch urban area has a density 1975.9 people per square kilometre, San Jose 2,485.1, Houston 1,289.5. 40% of housing units in San Francisco-Oakland MSA are multi-family, 34% in San Jose, 29% in Houston. Sorry, but Houston is not the model for increasing density and building more multi-family housing. Not even close. Houston is not even the model for Texas, let alone the rest of the USA.

Miami 46%
San Francisco-Oakland 40%
San Diego 36%
Washington 35%
Seattle 34%
San Jose 34%
Austin 33%
Denver 32%
Las Vegas 31%
Dallas-Fort Worth 30%
Houston 29%
Portland 29%
Salt Lake City 28%
Tampa-St. Petersburg 27%
San Antonio 25%
Sacramento 23%
Riverside 18%
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