They knocked down a house in my neighborhood but left a facade.Submitted by Mojo_art t3_11dspg2 in mildlyinteresting
JKSHulenburg t1_jad4i0e wrote
Reply to comment by Aberdolf-Linkler in They knocked down a house in my neighborhood but left a facade. by Mojo_art
There's a number of reasons to have setback requirements. Keeping the character of a neighborhood, providing space for easements for utilities, fire considerations (spacing buildings) ect
Aberdolf-Linkler t1_jad6hla wrote
Yes those are some of the reasons given but they don't really stand up to any scrutiny. For example this building predates the standard so they aren't really keeping any character, just enforcing a new one. Not to mention that's entirely a subjective quality that's being determined by a small group of officials.
Utilities some how manage on significantly smaller easements just fine all over the US and the world. And fire fighting has come a long way in the past 2000 years. There's a ton of detail on this one that's a bit beyond a reddit comment but this is really unnecessary today. At worst you can mandate firebreaks in lue of offset but for some reason municipalities across the US just use this blanket ban instead, despite virtually every single one having at least one district that manages to get by without these mandates.
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