{"id":8792,"date":"2011-01-06T07:02:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2011-01-06T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T13:02:13","slug":"you-know-what-you-want-but-planners-know-what-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/you-know-what-you-want-but-planners-know-what-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know What You Want, But Planners Know What You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you think you want a home with room for children and hobbies surrounded by a little bit of grass and maybe privacy fence where you can put something more than a toy barbecue designed for apartment balconies?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/metro\/article_e1da0f2c-0051-5a52-8b4b-bdcc182a771d.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis County Planners know better<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSt. Louis County planners want to change the county&#8217;s zoning codes to encourage people to live closer together to save energy and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The current codes reflect society&#8217;s reliance on the automobile and people&#8217;s preference for stand-alone houses, one to a lot.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the future of housing, experts say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last line quoted should be <em>That&#8217;s not the future of housing if experts have their say.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because, face it, they&#8217;ve spent years and thousands of dollars getting Master of Urban Planning degrees and have studied theories about what people should want instead of what they want&#8211;and do&#8211;when allowed freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Message: The environment is more important than you are, subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you think you want a home with room for children and hobbies surrounded by a little bit of grass and maybe privacy fence where you can put something more than a toy barbecue designed for apartment balconies? St. Louis County Planners know better: St. Louis County planners want to change the county&#8217;s zoning codes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8795,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}