Single-family zoning has been tied to racial inequity and climate change. But in California, resistance to denser zoning has been fierce — even among cities who may consider themselves environmentally progressive.
Lawmakers in California say the state's pattern of single-family zoning is boosting carbon emissions."They want to eliminate single-family zoning, bringing who knows into your suburbs," Trump said on a July campaign call., the focus on single-family homes has touched on a contentious debate in a growing number of communities. Around the country, cities and states are grappling with how zoning rules have deeply codified racial inequity and exacerbated climate change.
Looking to address the legacy of racism and the threat of climate change, some communities are remaking their zoning laws. Minneapolis and Oregon recently passed new"upzoning" codes allowing duplexes or triplexes in areas once zoned as single-family and encouraging denser development around transit and jobs.
"I think climate change is one of the real serious issues that we have to deal with," says Susan Kirsch, a community organizer in Mill Valley, Calif."But I don't think we need to be forcing draconian measures, taking away local control and local preferences, to be able to solve that problem." Kirsch's neighborhood is exactly the kind targeted for zoning change. She lives in a walkable area within a quarter-mile of a bus stop and close to a bank and grocery store. Right now, city zoning only allows single-family homes there.proposed last year, single-family zoning in places such as Mill Valley would be opened up to duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes.
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