In the apirit of Alt-federaldepartment, I would love to have an alt-planner twitter so I can make fun of stupid planning decsions!
Today's is an unnamed city limiting the proliferation of a certain type of business to a specific number - when is someone going to appeal these kinds of regulation by max number of them things to say they are arbitrary and makes a permit a commodity
I've wondered about that- I think you can more properly do "outlet density" with spacing requirements that has the effect of limiting the number of a particular type of land use.
So who is here to the end besides me?
I am. These kind of days are dead quiet, except something really weird or random almost always shows up. My theory is that often there's family in town- especially when they are visiting an aging relative here- some conversation comes up that results in a trip to the planning office to discuss what's allowed.
Right now, it's this woman who wants to park an RV in here sister's driveway, connect it to municipal utilities, and live in it year-round like an ADU. I could almost permit it as an ADU but how the heck am i going to get it through the historic district design standards? I'm not, is probably the answer.
What this really illuminates is that this is where the best HOA is somebody else's HOA that tells them "no" so you (the poor municipal planner) don't have to.