Adi Talwar
Bikes in Williamsburg hint at two sides of recent zoning activity in New York: the 2005 rezoning in this Brooklyn neighborhood, which led to residential and industrial displacement, and the move by the city in 2009 to tweak zoning rules to encourage developers to offer more parking for bikes.
Zoning laws, building codes and other regulations can seem like bureaucratic obscurities. But, says this author, they have a powerful—and often negative—impact on urban areas.
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