What do you think of YIMBYs?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

Total nonsense coming from the side that actually wants to control what other people do with their property.

So you would have no problem if I purchased the property next to yours and constructed a medical waste incinerator?

If zoning allowed for it, then sure. But zoning doesn't allow for it, so no.

So “exclusionary zoning” is bad except when it’s good? Controlling what others can do with their property is bad, except when they do things I don’t want? Creating live/work communities is only good for white collar jobs? Got it, thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

That's an interesting definition of "here".

So Chevy Chase and Bethesda are part of “here”, but Hyattsville does not? What are the qualities of Hyattsville for which you wish to exclude it from being part of the DC area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

That's an interesting definition of "here".

So Chevy Chase and Bethesda are part of “here”, but Hyattsville does not? What are the qualities of Hyattsville for which you wish to exclude it from being part of the DC area?

"Here" is your neighborhood, the one where you don't want to let your neighbors build duplexes.

[Anonymous]

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So “exclusionary zoning” is bad except when it’s good? Controlling what others can do with their property is bad, except when they do things I don’t want? Creating live/work communities is only good for white collar jobs? Got it, thanks!

Dude. You compared multi-family housing to a medical waste incinerator. You have no moral high ground here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

That's an interesting definition of "here".

So Chevy Chase and Bethesda are part of “here”, but Hyattsville does not? What are the qualities of Hyattsville for which you wish to exclude it from being part of the DC area?

"Here" is your neighborhood, the one where you don't want to let your neighbors build duplexes.

You do know that there are duplexes ALL OVER DC including Ward 3, no? No one is going to build down a single family home to build a duplex. They will knock it down to build a modest, mulitfamily apartment building that comes up to the sidewalk, or a McMansion. No money in knocking down a SFH to build a duplex

--owener and resident of Ward 3 duplex

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

That's an interesting definition of "here".

So Chevy Chase and Bethesda are part of “here”, but Hyattsville does not? What are the qualities of Hyattsville for which you wish to exclude it from being part of the DC area?

"Here" is your neighborhood, the one where you don't want to let your neighbors build duplexes.

You do know that there are duplexes ALL OVER DC including Ward 3, no? No one is going to build down a single family home to build a duplex. They will knock it down to build a modest, mulitfamily apartment building that comes up to the sidewalk, or a McMansion. No money in knocking down a SFH to build a duplex

--owener and resident of Ward 3 duplex

We don't know if there are duplexes in the YIMBY-hating PP's neighborhood, though. Or whether it's allowed to build any now.

But ok - "Here is your neighborhood, the one where you don't want to let your neighbors build a modest multi-family apartment building."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

You can buy a three-bedroom house for $335,000 that is within 200 feet of the DC border, in Prince George's County.

Do YIMBYS not include certain neighborhoods/counties in "the area"?

"The area" means the specific neighborhoods they want to live in. Ones they don't? Those don't count.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

That's an interesting definition of "here".

So Chevy Chase and Bethesda are part of “here”, but Hyattsville does not? What are the qualities of Hyattsville for which you wish to exclude it from being part of the DC area?

"Here" is your neighborhood, the one where you don't want to let your neighbors build duplexes.

You do know that there are duplexes ALL OVER DC including Ward 3, no? No one is going to build down a single family home to build a duplex. They will knock it down to build a modest, mulitfamily apartment building that comes up to the sidewalk, or a McMansion. No money in knocking down a SFH to build a duplex

--owener and resident of Ward 3 duplex

We don't know if there are duplexes in the YIMBY-hating PP's neighborhood, though. Or whether it's allowed to build any now.

But ok - "Here is your neighborhood, the one where you don't want to let your neighbors build a modest multi-family apartment building."

There are plenty of duplexes. And oodles of apartments too. Are you unfamiliar with DC?

[Anonymous]

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There are plenty of duplexes. And oodles of apartments too. Are you unfamiliar with DC?

So why is the PP fussing about the prospect of duplexes and apartments in their DC neighborhood, if there are already plenty of duplexes and oodles of apartments in their DC neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

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There are plenty of duplexes. And oodles of apartments too. Are you unfamiliar with DC?

So why is the PP fussing about the prospect of duplexes and apartments in their DC neighborhood, if there are already plenty of duplexes and oodles of apartments in their DC neighborhood?

Give it a rest already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think YIMBYs are very good at what they do, for example stacking ANCs with pro-YIMBYs who then endorse any/all development. YIMBYs are running circles around those who care about this city but are less organized, House of Cards style. Tune into ANY ANC meeting, and see the chorus of YIMBYs on parade.

Yup. They are well organized but dangerously ignorant, selfish, immature, and doing a lot of long term harm to our city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think YIMBYs are very good at what they do, for example stacking ANCs with pro-YIMBYs who then endorse any/all development. YIMBYs are running circles around those who care about this city but are less organized, House of Cards style. Tune into ANY ANC meeting, and see the chorus of YIMBYs on parade.

Yup. They are well organized but dangerously ignorant, selfish, immature, and doing a lot of long term harm to our city.

But developers absolutely love them. It’s wild to me that these people so self deluded that they think are somehow radicals fighting for economic justice when they are really supporting the interests of the most longstanding and entrenched rich and powerful in local politics.

[Anonymous]

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There are plenty of duplexes. And oodles of apartments too. Are you unfamiliar with DC?

So why is the PP fussing about the prospect of duplexes and apartments in their DC neighborhood, if there are already plenty of duplexes and oodles of apartments in their DC neighborhood?

No one is going to play verbal reindeer games. Bye-ee!

[Anonymous]

What about Kalorama district? Large lot and very old house. DC government or nonprofit can buy houses in the area and covert them to condos or apartment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about Kalorama district? Large lot and very old house. DC government or nonprofit can buy houses in the area and covert them to condos or apartment.

Because there are ways of providing affordable units without the city purchasing in the most expensive areas of the District.