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[meme] Lawns and car storage — name a more wasteful use of land (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lawns are a result of setback requirements imposed because people were building structures right up to and sometimes over the street.

And that's a problem because...?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Height clearance for emergency vehicles ("over the road"), utility servicing, having space to actually have a fire hydrant is important, fire breaks, etc

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

All that stuff should be accommodated for in the public right-of-way (which includes more than the paved part of the street itself, and usually ends somewhere in the vicinity of the outside edge of the sidewalk). It still doesn't persuade me that we need setbacks in the private property beyond that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Exactly, setbacks are classic NIMBY (NIMFY?) bullshit.