Time for a quick round of "things Japan does better than the USA" Today: Zoninghttps://twitter.com/BookOfTamara/status/771034892159201282 …
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It's counterintuitive, but the Japanese approach allows *far* more flexibility for developers AND municipalities...
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...not to mention, it keeps housing costs low by making it pretty easy to keep supply in line w/demand. San Francisco is pricier than Tokyo.
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For a more comprehensive summary, go right to the source: http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/000234477.pdf … (from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport)
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Are the average sizes of various zones smaller in Japan? Walking around Okayama I feel like each neighborhood is a few square blocks
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don't believe so but I might be wrong--some more detail on that in the PDF at end of thread
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each area has a very different feel from the last, but it's a total of 4 blocks walk from my hotel to res/store area
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I *do* know what you mean about each block having its own feel...but I think that's not a zoning thing...
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I know that the address system in Japan goes by block instead of by street, so I assume that has something to do with it
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yeah that's true. Makes sense. Could also be that my hotel (on a major road), is right on the edge of a zone
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Fascinating. I knew this instinctively but had never seen the classification.
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