Guys...we gotta narrow our streets
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I realize in retrospect that my schema actually has SIX categories not five, whoops
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But the narrowest category excludes car traffic anyway so
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and the landlords will have to buy this land at market price?
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whatever's clever
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so after this massive wealth transfer from the public to landowners my guess is the next step is no one who isn't rich can afford a car, ending traffic
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lol @ thinking the space currently covered in excess asphalt constitutes public wealth and not public liability--this is more like creating wealth out of nowhere than moving it from one holder to another
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so it's valuable, but it's also not valuable
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It's not valuable as pavement. It could be valuable as buildable land. I'm not committed to passing it to existing fronting landowners, they are just the most convenient designee for a 5-tweet concept pitch
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why does it have to be privatized
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the reason I said "whatever's clever" earlier is because I'm not committed to any particular way of distributing the newly-available land
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An extra 6' of land on each side would be difficult to actually make use of without demolishing or heavily modifying every existing structure, which seems unlikely to be worth it?
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Seems better to give all 12' (or more) to one side of the street, so only half as many structures need to be rebuilt to make use of it, and there's more motivation for them to do so.
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for a case where there are 12' to spare, maybe (although how do you decide which side of the street lucks out?), but there are bound to be cases where there's even less to parcel out. I'm anticipating more of a long-term benefit here--existing structures won't be there forever
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some people would probably go for modifications or reconstruction right away, but most would probably leave it be, with no changes in structure until you get new owners
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this effort should go hand in hand with changes to zoning allowing both a broader mix of uses + smaller structures with smaller setbacks
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