My new county executive just outside of Washington DC has changed the building permit laws. They've become so lax people are now allowed to build shed size buildings for occupancy in your yard. What is now happening is Mexicans buying a house and building a bunch of illegal immigrant apartment sheds in affluent neighborhoods. I'm for building permit laws.
A huge issue with the political discourse in our country is how quickly people call others hypocrites for not following their assigned political label's doctrine to the T. Politics used to have something called "common sense" that people would invoke when writing laws. Now everything is labeled as either pro-government neoliberalism/neoconservatism, pro-degeneracy progressive, or leave-me-the-fuck-alone libertarianism. Not everything falls into neat labels in the real world.
I don't want my neighbor to tear down his house and build a ten story house 6 inches from the lot lines and certainly not without the structure being inspected and approved.
I was at one yesterday and the waitress I talked to said she ended up quitting her old job where she was making like 16 bucks an hour to work full time at the club because she can walk out of there everyday with at least a hundred or more in tips. And that's on a bad night. When they do poker night, she usually leaves with 200 or so from tips alone.
Ehh have to disagree on this to a degree. People often forget that policies like building codes and permits started off solving a very real problem of unsafe construction by unscrupulous scum. Of course, they now mostly exist to maintain their own bureaucracy, but having some codes and an efficient enforcement mechanism needs to exist. At least they're done at the county state level, which is constitutionally justified to a degree.
The problem with regulations is that many of them are good. At first.
Then like 20 years later you realize how fucking stupid chapter X paragraph Y is and it fucked up the building dynamic in the whole city leading to low supply and astronomical prices.
So why can’t the regulations be per county? Generalizing regulations to large areas is fatally flawed. It’s also much easier to manage regulations when the regulated area is small
Add building permits to the list.
My new county executive just outside of Washington DC has changed the building permit laws. They've become so lax people are now allowed to build shed size buildings for occupancy in your yard. What is now happening is Mexicans buying a house and building a bunch of illegal immigrant apartment sheds in affluent neighborhoods. I'm for building permit laws.
They also stop things like strip clubs and bars being built next to schools. It's a hard balance to strike.
A huge issue with the political discourse in our country is how quickly people call others hypocrites for not following their assigned political label's doctrine to the T. Politics used to have something called "common sense" that people would invoke when writing laws. Now everything is labeled as either pro-government neoliberalism/neoconservatism, pro-degeneracy progressive, or leave-me-the-fuck-alone libertarianism. Not everything falls into neat labels in the real world.
I don't want my neighbor to tear down his house and build a ten story house 6 inches from the lot lines and certainly not without the structure being inspected and approved.
I do. That’s what the Founding Fathers intended.
Kids will learn more useful things in the strip club than at at fucking public school.
Sad truth.
I was at one yesterday and the waitress I talked to said she ended up quitting her old job where she was making like 16 bucks an hour to work full time at the club because she can walk out of there everyday with at least a hundred or more in tips. And that's on a bad night. When they do poker night, she usually leaves with 200 or so from tips alone.
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Ehh have to disagree on this to a degree. People often forget that policies like building codes and permits started off solving a very real problem of unsafe construction by unscrupulous scum. Of course, they now mostly exist to maintain their own bureaucracy, but having some codes and an efficient enforcement mechanism needs to exist. At least they're done at the county state level, which is constitutionally justified to a degree.
The problem with regulations is that many of them are good. At first.
Then like 20 years later you realize how fucking stupid chapter X paragraph Y is and it fucked up the building dynamic in the whole city leading to low supply and astronomical prices.
Yeah I used to live in San Fran.
So why can’t the regulations be per county? Generalizing regulations to large areas is fatally flawed. It’s also much easier to manage regulations when the regulated area is small
And they create housing shortages by limiting development.
But why are houses so expensive /s