Place

Can You Plan a Village?

We've been wandering around Dutchess County looking for another house, preferably not too far from work, yet close to Deena's family. Some of the houses we've seen have been in a residential cluster development in Beekman, Dalton Farm. Just this Sunday I ran across an advertisement in the paper for a new development by WCI Spectrum in East Fishkill, Four Corners. The picture in the advertisement looked like these from John Massengale's, while the development will probably be like this one in Southbury, Connecticut.

I wonder, what does it take to incorporate a village instead of a community association?

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The Government Only Does What the People Want, Right?

Jacob Levy, over at the Volokh Conspiracy, ponders the question of why there's a dearth of retail outlets around the University of Chicago.

Honestly, what are they teaching in University of Chicago economics classes these days? I thought Chicago was supposed to produce libertarians who knew to look for government failure behind market strangeness. In short: it's the zoning. Want to know why there's no Gap on 55th Street? Click through to the searchable map. Pan up and down 55th Street, the barren wasteland that bisects Hyde Park. Do you see how much of it is zoned for commercial or business use?

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