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[samatman]

This is a problem all over.

Before it was Silicon Valley, the Peninsula was said to be the best citrus growing land on Earth.

It's a nice place to live, don't get me wrong. But I can't help feeling like growing detached single-family homes instead wasn't a good trade.

[londons_explore → samatman]

You, or anyone else here, can reverse this trade today by buying up homes, demolishing them, and planting citrus trees.

You wouldn't make a profit doing so though, which tells you that the collective hivemind that makes up the economy prefers houses over trees.

[foobar1962 → londons_explore]

Indeed. A lot of problems are solved by having less people on the planet, and ultimately that will happen whether planned or not.

[samatman → londons_explore]

That's true.

It's also true that, if I wanted to build a nice subdivision under El Capitan in Yosemite, I would find that I'm quite unable. The collective hivemind that makes up the body politic prefers a national park over houses.

So now that we've acknowledged that Mammon isn't the only god in our pantheon, perhaps we can make better decisions on that basis, going forward.

[londons_explore → samatman]

Yes, thats sucks.

For that specific problem, you could imagine policies allowing you some kind of 'zoning swap' - where you get a bit of land in one physical location and swap all laws, covenants, and restrictions for land in another region. Obviously you might not have a 1:1 exchange rate...

[prox → londons_explore]

Youcould set up a collective farm, where a neighborhood essentially owns a farm.

[heavenlyblue → prox]

Or you could just grow trees on top of your houses!