I'm in favor of historic preservation laws, but think local governments should create an endowment to buy/maintain historic sites with a reasonable process for re-assessing what's historic, moving items to a museum or documenting thoroughly before rebuilding, etc.
This 'historic laundromat' situation seems like a good time to resurface @ATabarrok's case for ending all historic preservation laws. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/06/against-historical-preservation.html …https://twitter.com/rolandlisf/status/963572778870779904 …
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The system is too abusable right now. I also thinking zoning laws should be studied and re-examined... they cover an important domain for city development but many were formulated speculatively at a lower level of societal knowledge and have persisted just through inertia.
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Slowing development down doesn’t sound like a bad idea to me. In fact maybe we need to do more of it, not less. By any means necessary.
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On the other hand, I'm probably missing a bunch of important context for this tweet :-) Carry on!
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