Comments by "Bushrod Rust Johnson" (@MilwaukeeF40C) on "The Case Against Single-Family Zoning" video.

  1. Dang ol' cold beer right between the dang ol' legs, man.
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  2. My children can play in a junkyard if they want. My yard is for me, my tastes, my hobbies, my food, and my hatred of the idea of having to put up with shit at a park. I had private yards to play in at various times during my childhood and it kicked ass. Living in apartments and condos sucked effeminate urban planners' balls.
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  3. I hate going in to a building and smelling cooking odors.
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  4.  @MTobias  The residential shortages in Los Angeles and San Francisco are due to government interference in redevelopment. On new development the owners usually build what they want and single family residences are what is in demand and profitable. No investor would choose to build those in San Francisco which is already full. You also didn't specify California. That place has been fucked up for a long time about respecting property rights and voluntary economic interaction. A guy in charge of one of southern California's planning agencies came straight from the Soviet Union after his talents became useless there and he needed a new place to ruin people's lives. California gave him the welcome mat.
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  5. Dead subdivisions like that were products of the real estate artificial bubble that the government created, and a lot of land was developed without real demand for it. Places like rural Texas are cheap enough that people who really want to live out there can get estate size parcels.
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  6. Single family houses tend to get built more where land is cheap regardless of zoning. Suburban zoning follows demand patterns, it is not imposed to begin with. The "streetcar" style of town development is the old pattern of additions and blocks with most streets being through streets. Private land developers had to do it that way in order to have marketable lots before people had cars. Nowadays large parcels of formerly rural land between old country roads get turned in to subdivisions. The old country roads become the arterials, and there are many regulatory restrictions on new street connections to those roads as well as through streets between adjacent new subdivisions.
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  7. Do a video on the case against ANY zoning. Ha, you won't do it.
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  8. Dig a fishing pond, but keep the dirt in a big pile so it will catch bullets.
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