Single-family zoning is racist in origin and encourages wasteful and ecologically harmful suburban sprawl, writes lifelong Yalecrest resident Atticus Edwards. 'We must meet the NIMBYs at K.E.E.P. Yalecrest with as much opposition as possible.'
Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Historic preservationists are hosted a walking tour of a few blocks in Yalecrest, Saturday, October 24, 2015 to educate neighbors and homeowners who live in historic districts about the uniqueness of where they live. In past 20 years, at least 32 historic homes have been demolished here to make way for megahomes and the tour is meant to highlight the value of historic neighborhoods.
“In 1909, San Francisco established the first legal instance of what is called R1 Zoning — better known as single-family zoning — which was applied to a neighborhood called Elm Wood Park. The planned installation of a predominantly Black dance hall in Elm Park was cited as the reason for the new zoning law.
“It is now illegal to build anything other than single family zoning in 75% of American residential neighborhoods. The current housing crisis is rooted in precisely these laws. The crisis will only get worse while, in our high-growth state, real estate developers compete to build increasingly expensive apartments on the small amount of space they’re permitted to develop.
“Whose backyard will these developments be in, then? The Avenues? Sugar House? How can we ask those neighborhoods to have affordable housing developments constructed if we’re not willing to have them in our own?
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