Hacker News with Generative AI: Zoning

Nearly Half of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today (2016) (nytimes.com)
New York City’s zoning code turns 100 this year. That may not sound like cause for celebration — except maybe for land-use lawyers and Robert Moses aficionados. Yet for almost every New Yorker, the zoning code plays an outsize role in daily life, shaping virtually every inch of the city.
Rethinking Zoning to Increase Affordable Housing  (nahro.org)
Zoning, initially designed to regulate land use and density, has evolved into a significant impediment for growing communities attempting to adapt to current circumstances.
End Mandatory Single Family Zoning by Overturning Euclid vs. Ambler (maximum-progress.com)
Zoning Out American Families (discoursemagazine.com)