Greater than the fear that neighborhood character will be compromised with density, we should fear the prospect of fewer people bothering to settle in Anchorage at all.
Zoning codes emerged in the early 20th century as a tool to mitigate effects of heavy industry and skyscrapers on residents’ clean air and daylight in the biggest U.S. cities. In the following decades, the tool expanded into a practice of comprehensively categorizing property into fine use gradations in almost every community across the country.
Opponents of the initiative point out that other areas were designated for higher densities in the last zoning overhaul, saying more development in established neighborhoods is unnecessary. They want to focus new development on blighted neighborhoods that deserve the boost. Yet the idea that we can simply guide development toward areas with less appeal feels less plausible as our local economy cools.
Fellow single-family homeowners, look beyond your desire for predictability. We are using zoning to extend our influence too far beyond our own property lines and even beyond our own lifespans. Assembly members are absolutely right to take a more direct role in zoning and seek new avenues for our city’s evolution. Our new mayor should similarly adopt zoning as a live issue, not presuming the wisdom of the status quo, which remains laden with the ambitions of 2008. While people will come out of the woodwork to prophesize ruin, we could live just as well with a Title 21 that was half as long and a new fourplex on every other corner.
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