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Comment on The Effects of Noise on Health (2022)

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A lot of this boils down to the need for better zoning and stricter controls on what happens where when. Forces today are pulling things in other directions… build houses everywhere, even in places where it makes no sense to build houses.

We’re seeing things like former green belts around airports now being turned into housing developments. There were no houses there in large part because of noise. Now developers move in and build big developments there with new residents screaming about how bad the noise is. Can’t make it up.

The above is because more desirable places to live have been zoned for no new housing.

Stricter zoning isn’t the answer. Looser zoning is.

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