Comments by "" (@mukrifachri) on "The Case Against Single-Family Zoning" video.

  1. I think the single-family zoning part is mostly OK - what really escapes me is the minimum land size the plot has to be. Down here nearly all homes are single-family yet we don't have oversized rooms and oversized lawns. Most houses are two stories all the way to the plot border because that's all there is - they often starts off as being single-story and they didn't quite span the plot, but people build more and more additions to their homes to accomodate a growing family. Due to increasing land prices (and house prices) now some downtown houses of larger styles (what used to be utilized only by one family) might be utilized by two families or more. I might say that it might not even require dropping R1 zones - just a relaxation of the lot size and setback rules and the amount of families to live in such dwellings could be enough to make sure that they start to become more densely populated. I've often compared the population density in a US suburb and here - honestly the suburb densities there equals rural areas here where houses are still interrupted by paddy fields !
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  2. How deep do you intend to dive into it ? ;-)
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  3.    the US also had urban railway and tram system that'd beat everyone else. Still a shock to me they all faded so quick... maybe because they realized "it's a huge country, we can move to the countryside" ?
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  4.    You had one hell of urban landscape though. The Turks didn't made the Empire State Building or all the other early skyscrapers - Americans did.
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  5. We just played on the streets ! It was fun until we smash someone's window while playing soccer (well, football) XD
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  6.  @zacharyhenderson2902  You can make a garden at the 2nd floor, which wouldn't be entirely visible from ground level so you can have a tan in it as well, you can walk the dogs while buying stuff, you don't need plain ground-level soil for that kinds of stuff. Our "lawn" is only enough for three cars, but we only have one car, so the rest becomes a small lawn, then we made a balcony over the car park so we have an extra garden above.
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  7.  @zacharyhenderson2902  Okay, a 2nd floor lawn garden would be quite expensive, but yeah you can have gardens on your roof which means no need for extra space around the house footprint just for them.
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  8.  @zacharyhenderson2902  Why not on a single-family home ?
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  9.  @zacharyhenderson2902  Well quite a lot of single family homes here have two stories with balconies of sorts. Not all do, but it's largely because there wouldn't be enough land otherwise... Which I guess raise the point that a smaller plot size or densification of existing plots would lead to more efficient usage of the land.
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  10.  Ginger  True, but it still baffles me a lot. Thought capitalism is all about efficiency... apparently not !
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