Don’t Be Like [Insert City Name Here]
28th December 2018
The Antiplanner points out how people are getting a hernia tugging on their own bootstraps.
Finally, part of the problem is that the policies regional planners adopt to save their cities from becoming like other cities are usually the policies planners in those other regions adopted that made them what they are. Every county in the San Francisco Bay Area adopted urban-growth boundaries in the 1970s (except San Francisco County itself, which has no rural land). So, to keep from becoming like San Francisco, Seattle adopted an urban-growth boundary in the 1980s. For some reason, it didn’t work.