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giritrobbins t1_itziufk wrote

Reply to comment by foxer2734 in Why Is There Such Little Resistance to New Office Buildings, Life Science Labs, Etc.? by OperationSpringAwake

> Housing simply doesn’t generate as much revenue.

Single Family Housing doesn't. I'd be a mixed use development is nearly as good for a town or city as an office. It's just they don't want to allow that. Even though every single historic downtown is mixed use zoning.

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foxer2734 t1_iu1b3cb wrote

Definitely- and I think we’ve gotten a lot better with actually attractive mixed used developments.

I want to generalize and say cities and towns just can’t get out of their own way to encourage this kind of development but honestly I think right now they’re having enough trouble just staying staffed and holding it together after COVID. They simply can’t keep up with the amount of development underway AND rewrite all of their code while handling the staffing shortages a lot of them have been seeing. I don’t know what the solution is here other than encouraging people to get on their local boards if they want to see this kind of change.

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