Zoning law is national but all the decisions about applying it are made locally
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If you had asked me, I'd have said Japan's secret sauce is the exact opposite: a high degree of local decision making
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How does "local decision making" lead to building in Japan and gridlock in Berkeley?
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Why don't Japanese cities engage in exclusionary zoning for the rich?
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Replying to @TommSciortino @suldrew
No one answer that I'm certain of, but a few things here...first is that you don't need to exclude by law what is excluded by price
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Which invites the reverse question: why does Berkeley use zoning to exclude the poor when said poor already can't afford rich neighborhoods?
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The second thing is that Japan doesn't have the same hatred of the poor that we appear to, I think bc they never had a "frontier mindset"
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In USA, you're expected to take care of yourself: depend on nobody (& by extension, nobody depends on you)
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You would do so by going out, away from civilization, and fending for yourself on the frontier...but after that closed?
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We just got left with the remnants: urge to settle away from civilization & resentment of any sort of dependence on each other
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Both attitudes are directly opposed to idea of the "public square" or the city in general...Japan doesn't seem to have these attitudes
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