You Care About the Subdivision Regulations, You Just Don't Know It (Yet) — Strong Towns: "Basically, local subdivision regulations govern the division of land, which includes everything from a simple lot split to the creation of new neighborhoods from pastureland. Among other things, they establish rules for the creation of lots, blocks and streets, and provide for the establishment of easements, parks, and public rights-of-way.
Making modest, intelligent changes to this document can have enormous impacts because new neighborhoods tend to be mass-produced at a large scale. If your city hasn’t re-evaluated its subdivision regulations in a while, you’re probably still replicating bad ideas from the 1970’s — creating inflexible, and auto-centric places. If this is the case, it's time for a change."
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...Strong Towns still hasn't really figured out that cities are not the entities responsible for those restrictive covenants. The organization has been promoting higher density zoning ("up-zone") without realizing that restrictive covenants may actually prevent businesses, density, etc. separate and apart from any zoning ordinance. They would be better off getting rid of the restrictive covenants.
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