Eliminating R1 doesn't push us to RM. It pushes us to R2.
It allows people to get creative converting single family into dual unit properties (duplexes, second houses, splitting the upstairs/downstairs).
When I couldn't buy a house in my 20s, I shrugged and just said it was because I was too young. So I went back to school to get a STEM master's degree. Now I'm 36 and still can't afford anything anyplace. I never thought I'd be priced out of
Utah! (That was always my escape plan: come home)
We have to BUILD our way out of this mess. It's the only way to stabilize prices, address the shortage, and make housing less appealing as an investment.
I'm soooooooo done with this crappy cycle:
- Can't sprawl. We want to keep our farmland.
- Can't up zone. We want to keep our neighborhood.
- Can't move out of state. We have all the same problems. "Go back to California!"
There but for the grace of family am I, a professional with a professional degree, homeless. And if someone in
my position feels this hopeless, is it any wonder we have actual homeless? Not to mention the invisible over-occupied houses which spread across the entire west? The 4-paycheck house is here in CA. Don't think it won't come to SLC? Wait 18 months...
We need to BUILD BUILD BUILD. All of the above! Infill? YES! High-rise? YES! TOD? YES! Sprawl? YES!
No city here in CA wants to take the lead, because they become the "dumping ground" for all the other cities, who cherry-pick the rich housing developments. We need to spread the pain around. Every city needs to be FORCED to remove restrictions which prevent the market from generating housing which there is huge demand for. Zoning is artificial. It's a fake barrier we've put up to maintain order. It's waaaaaaaay out of whack now (3+ million units short in CA; probably 100,000+ short in Utah).
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Originally Posted by Always Sunny in SLC
I would prefer that by right someone can build the next level up in density and cities would not be able to stop it as long as you met some very basic parameters. This would allow cities to level up over time and also take away concerns about a high rise in an R-1 zone (even though that is largely an exaggerated worry). I would also like to see us stop subsidizing R-1 by such aggressive sales tax revenue sharing between cities or just requiring cities to collect all their revenue for basic city services from property tax so citizens are no longer seen as a liability and then become an asset.
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Great point! I hadn't thought about the way taxes are structured. Makes Prop 13 here (CA) even more sinister.
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