Thanks to #Virginia Delegate David Owen for introducing #HB2480 to reduce the regulatory burden on new #housing to subsidize motor vehicle use. This made some sense a century ago when new safe homes were plentiful and safe smooth pavement was not, but things are very different today with a worsening housing #shortage . #zoning #waroncars #redtape #YIMBY https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2480
#President #JoeBiden's #WhiteHouse launches broad new #regulatory #effort, as #VicePresident #KamalaHarris prepares to unveil her #economicplan.
The Biden administration on Monday unveiled a new, multi-agency #regulatory #initiative to #target #corporate #practices that officials claim are designed to #waste #consumers’ #time and needlessly #burden them with #redtape, in order to maximize #profits.
OK, #NZTwits, here's the plan. Seymour apparently knows better than all of us parents, let's have him judge who's sick enough to stay home 
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/business/zoning-laws-suburbs-changes/index.html “The Pew poll found strong support for policies such as legalizing accessory dwelling units, commonly known as granny flats, on single-family zoned areas; legalizing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes; reforms to create affordable housing development near major transit; and simplifying the housing permitting process.” #housing #zoning #zoningreform #equity #redtape #desegregation #shortage #uspolitics #inflation #transit
#Queensland #Bushfires #Redtape
Queensland landholders are blaming excessive red tape and "unmanaged" national parks for recent bushfire devastation.
Badenoch launches 23rd bid to find burdensome EU red tape
The business secretary has launched what will be the final attempt in the Conservatives' long quest to uncover unnecessary EU red tape holding Britain back | Anthony Robinson
#RedTape #Brexit
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/badenoch-launches-23rd-bid-to-find-burdensome-eu-red-tape/
I missed this, good though painful breakdown of the "discretionary" process in San Francisco required to use land. I have heard many arguments recently that no land uses should be permitted "by right" and I think San Francisco is a helpful illustration of how that works in practice https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-housing-development-red-tape-17815725.php #housing #sanfrancisco #zoning #zoningreform #policy #redtape
Did you know?
In 1977, after 6 years without legal roads or a passable bridge and being told the government had no funds to help, the tiny West Virginia community of Vulcan became so desperate for a bridge repair that connected them with the rest of the world that they reached out to the Soviet Union for assistance.
@QasimRashid Andrew Carnegie was a prize b*stard, but his #philanthropy built a lot of libraries in towns that might otherwise not have them. Government programs get so wrapped up in #redtape that the majority of the money goes to meeting pointless requirements about hiring, etc., or lining politicians’ pockets, that most of the money never gets where it’s supposed to.
