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Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)

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122 points WasimBhai | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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picardo ◴[25 Jun 25 13:22 UTC] No.44377037[source]▶
I'd be interested to see an update to this study in the coming years. Starbucks has been pivoting towards take out and mobile orders and removing tables and chairs entirely from some of its stores lately.
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walterbell ◴[25 Jun 25 13:58 UTC] No.44377424[source]▶
If neighborhood entrepreneurs would benefit from seating, cities can require a minimum number of chairs per square foot, starting with a non-zero number to address US Starbucks locations that have removed all chairs.
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sorcerer-mar ◴[25 Jun 25 14:38 UTC] No.44377865[source]▶
Or they can just get rid of Euclidean zoning and allow people to create small commercial enterprises in their actual neighborhoods so actual neighbors can easily spend time there.
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picardo ◴[25 Jun 25 14:46 UTC] No.44377960[source]▶
Mixed use zoning is quite common in major American cities. It's much more complicated to implement than Euclidean zoning, though, so I assume it faces some adoption challenges in smaller cities.
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1. sorcerer-mar ◴[25 Jun 25 15:36 UTC] No.44378516[source]▶
Yeah it's mostly common in places where it has existed historically, and yeah there's been a new effort to reintroduce it.

Euclidean zoning is the obvious thing to do if you're planning from a 30,000 foot view, but planning should be done at the level at which humans exist!