Word: davidoff
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...York urbanologist named Paul Davidoff has decided to attack zoning in the courts. His first target is the affluent town of Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore, where he is advising the N.A.A.C.P. in preparing a lawsuit. His charge: "Land use control has been used to create a segregated society-one of de jure, not just de facto, segregation...
...Oyster Bay are zoned for one-or more acre lots, which blacks cannot afford. Though the town has built 96 low-income housing units and has another 213 planned, all but 48 of them are restricted to senior citizens, who have no children for the town to educate. Davidoff and the N.A.A.C.P. would like the zoning changed so that 450 acres could hold single family houses on quarter-acre plots, and 300 acres could serve for multifamily units. The net effect would be to bring in 18,000 more residents, including 5,700 children. Town officials protest that Oyster...
...change that many planners would like to see is creation of regional authorities to control zoning. Davidoff advocates a regional or statewide authority that would tax an entire greater metropolitan area, thus exposing the real costs that suburban living imposes on the central city. Such a regional tax, he argues, would eliminate the need of local communities to protect real estate and property tax values and therefore would do much to open up suburban land, money and jobs. "There is no chance to rebuild the inner cities," he says, "unless we can use the resources of the suburbs...