Submission statement: this story covers new development in American housing policy in one of the fastest-growing states, and shows that the partisan politics around zoning are much less black-and-white than some people assume, with this bill being passed on a party line vote to GOP support and Dem opposition on NIMBY grounds.
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Why do people always go “partisan politics is opposite for zoning” when in blue states like Colorado and NYC and California it is the Republicans who are the biggest NIMBYs?
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Submission statement: this story covers new development in American housing policy in one of the fastest-growing states, and shows that the partisan politics around zoning are much less black-and-white than some people assume, with this bill being passed on a party line vote to GOP support and Dem opposition on NIMBY grounds.
Why do people always go “partisan politics is opposite for zoning” when in blue states like Colorado and NYC and California it is the Republicans who are the biggest NIMBYs?
[Even in Florida Republicans basically told Democratic city councils to eat shit and abandon zoning reform and threatened to strip them of all power](https://reason.com/2022/09/13/florida-gov-ron-desantis-administration-tells-gainesville-to-abandon-zoning-reform/)
The Republicans want more Single Family Housing and Gated Communities, not more cities.
Florida NIMBYs are funny because half of them are transplants anyway
This seems to have not actual done much with zoning right? It’s more about curbing things like development fees it seems. Still good though!