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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
So the 73 year old bookkeeper gets to buy a house in their 30s, and dictate what their neighbours can do for the next 40 years?
There will be a never ending chain of someone who was "there first" and doesn't like anyone parking or driving on the public roads we all own in front of their house or blocking the sun that they don't pay taxes to.
So basically nothing should ever get changed, continue the sprawl indefinitely?
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But it's not really about "what their neighbors can do" is it. These houses aren't being knocked down and rebuilt by people who live in the neighborhood. It is developers coming in, who never have to deal with the outcome of poor design of putting up a 4 plex with no off street parking, or zero clearance lots where houses are basically touching.
Changing the zoning has very little to do with creating more affordable housing and everything to do with getting money into the pockets of the developers who funded their campaigns in the first place.