R1 Single Family Home Zoning -- seen by many as perpetuating racial segregation and/or the cause of urban sprawl -- will be ended in Minneapolis.
The City Council approved "Minneapolis 2040", a new comprehensive plan which will do away with R1 and R2, in effect permitting three-family buildings (triplexes) in low-density residential neighborhoods.
Opening up Minneapolis' wealthiest and most exclusive districts to triplexes, the theory goes, will create new opportunities for people to move for schools or a job, provide a way for aging residents to downsize without leaving their neighborhoods, help ease the affordability crunch, and stem the displacement of lower-income residents in gentrifying areas. Home ownership in Minneapolis diverges along racial lines...
One of the opponents of new plan stated. "They are getting rid of all R1 and R2 low-density zoning, and I think everyone has accepted this as the most ambitious up-zoning proposal in the U. S. by far."
http://slate.com/business/2018/12/mi...ng-racism.html