Because of zoning laws in a lot of places that’s not possible.
For instance, where I live, restaurants are restricted to commercial zones. Housing is restricted to residential zones.
That also gets into the question of “why” do we have zoning laws, and that gets complicated, because it was most beneficial in separating factories and utilities, and very noisy and polluty things from where people lived.
Unfortunately they also had the idea that any enterprise fell into this idea, and the other businesses didn’t want to mix with other polluters and residents and it became a big mess
You might also not want a bar opening its doors above your apartment because there’s no zoning laws… Or for all arable land to be converted to factories and shopping malls more than they’ve already been.
The problem, to me, is more that the people managing zoning aren’t doing it logically and, in some cases, don’t have enough control over what commercial zoning means.
Example from around here: Having two Best Buy a couple hundred meters from one another in a location where there’s no groceries makes no sense, but because it’s all commercial the city can’t prevent it? That’s bullshit.
Because of zoning laws in a lot of places that’s not possible.
For instance, where I live, restaurants are restricted to commercial zones. Housing is restricted to residential zones.
That also gets into the question of “why” do we have zoning laws, and that gets complicated, because it was most beneficial in separating factories and utilities, and very noisy and polluty things from where people lived.
Unfortunately they also had the idea that any enterprise fell into this idea, and the other businesses didn’t want to mix with other polluters and residents and it became a big mess
You might also not want a bar opening its doors above your apartment because there’s no zoning laws… Or for all arable land to be converted to factories and shopping malls more than they’ve already been.
The problem, to me, is more that the people managing zoning aren’t doing it logically and, in some cases, don’t have enough control over what commercial zoning means.
Example from around here: Having two Best Buy a couple hundred meters from one another in a location where there’s no groceries makes no sense, but because it’s all commercial the city can’t prevent it? That’s bullshit.