The DMV needs a YIMBY revolution

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unironically.
Most of you will hate this but I don’t care. We all need to suck it up and move into the 21st century, 25 years too late.

No more tweaking around the edges with low-level zoning reform or a few more metro stops or buses here and there. We need a broad scale systematic urban planning overhaul that completely eliminates single family zoning anywhere inside the Beltway.

Single family zoning is simply unsustainable. We can’t grow our economy if we don’t have new residents and we can’t have new residents if we don’t have homes. And if we don’t have more homes near better, reliable transit, then everyone will be more miserable stuck in traffic and less productive at work and less economically competitive. We need to completely eliminate suburban sprawl. The 1950s planned communities need to stay in the past. In a perfect world we’d move everyone closer in to promote re-wilding of our exurbs.

Nobody should be living in a single family suburban home and drive an SUV. It should be either urban, dense multi family dwelling walkable 15-minute neighborhoods, or rural homesteads, preferably using their land for organic family farming and solar fields and green spaces.

If it weren’t for American “but muh freedumb!” selfish ideology, I guarantee we would all have a much higher quality of life with less traffic, less stress, stronger communities, less obesity, and a better economy.

Bring on the YIMBY revolution.

DC GDP:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DCNGSP

Seems historically robust and growing. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Increased urbanization has lots of downside: fewer greener spaces, pollution, increased crime (not a fear, but rather a fact), waste disposal problems and god forbid if we have another pandemic. A dense, urban space spreads disease faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are DCYimbys, the Coalition for Smarter Growth and GreaterGreaterWashington - if you are a YIMBY, then support these great groups!

I do. And I appreciate their advocacy but none of their piecemeal approaches is going to accomplish what really needs to happen.

Think about it this way. Have you traveled around Europe? What is so appealing to Americans about Europe? Other than history buffs and foodies, why do people enjoy European cities and towns? Because of the urban planning. Everything accessible by transit, effective planning that centers around historic buildings, compact amenities, walkable streets. You don’t to go Europe to drive down a stroad to a wasteland of parking lots dotted with McDonalds and Walmarts.
In between these dense European cities you get cute little towns and scenic countryside.

You don’t get a 355/Wisconsin Ave or a Georgia Ave or a 29/Columbia Ave etc.

Europe also has single family homes last time I checked.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

It would be libel, not slander, but good luck with either.

Indeed. Truth is a Defense.

Are we all okay with lobbing accusations of corruption at ANCs, GGW, and more? These aren't public figures like the Mayor. Seems pretty reckless and, taking the complaints at their face, impossible.

They are public figures. And they publicly posted some idiotic things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are DCYimbys, the Coalition for Smarter Growth and GreaterGreaterWashington - if you are a YIMBY, then support these great groups!

I do. And I appreciate their advocacy but none of their piecemeal approaches is going to accomplish what really needs to happen.

Think about it this way. Have you traveled around Europe? What is so appealing to Americans about Europe? Other than history buffs and foodies, why do people enjoy European cities and towns? Because of the urban planning. Everything accessible by transit, effective planning that centers around historic buildings, compact amenities, walkable streets. You don’t to go Europe to drive down a stroad to a wasteland of parking lots dotted with McDonalds and Walmarts.
In between these dense European cities you get cute little towns and scenic countryside.

You don’t get a 355/Wisconsin Ave or a Georgia Ave or a 29/Columbia Ave etc.

Europe also has single family homes last time I checked.

And suburbs. And highways. Europe is not disneyworld.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

Obviously the corruption problem is that these groups don't agree with all the nimbys who are fronting legal fees for Chevy Chase Voice while trying to weaponize racist covenants from the early 1900's to maintain their white privilege.

This is going to be shocking to the POC living in these neighborhoods who do not want increased density.

How will you break it to them that they are racists?

Are you just assuming that POC need white saviors to rescue them from their own opinions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

Obviously the corruption problem is that these groups don't agree with all the nimbys who are fronting legal fees for Chevy Chase Voice while trying to weaponize racist covenants from the early 1900's to maintain their white privilege.

Doesn’t the head of one of these groups co-own a company that is working for the THIRD time as the national pollster for Trump’s presidential campaign? All the while Trump is vowing to keep affordable housing out of communities and ranting about Springfield, OH. This is the definition of cynicism and hypocrisy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

Obviously the corruption problem is that these groups don't agree with all the nimbys who are fronting legal fees for Chevy Chase Voice while trying to weaponize racist covenants from the early 1900's to maintain their white privilege.

This is going to be shocking to the POC living in these neighborhoods who do not want increased density.

How will you break it to them that they are racists?

Are you just assuming that POC need white saviors to rescue them from their own opinions?

You may not be able to reason with a person who thinks racial covenants that haven't been enforceable since 1964 can be weaponized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

Obviously the corruption problem is that these groups don't agree with all the nimbys who are fronting legal fees for Chevy Chase Voice while trying to weaponize racist covenants from the early 1900's to maintain their white privilege.

This is going to be shocking to the POC living in these neighborhoods who do not want increased density.

How will you break it to them that they are racists?

Are you just assuming that POC need white saviors to rescue them from their own opinions?

You may not be able to reason with a person who thinks racial covenants that haven't been enforceable since 1964 can be weaponized.

They actually haven’t been enforceable since 1948. The Supreme Court determined that they weren’t enforceable in the 1940’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

Obviously the corruption problem is that these groups don't agree with all the nimbys who are fronting legal fees for Chevy Chase Voice while trying to weaponize racist covenants from the early 1900's to maintain their white privilege.

These covenants have no enforceable component that limit people from buy the property due to race and they have not had any racially enforceable restrictions for 75 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

Obviously the corruption problem is that these groups don't agree with all the nimbys who are fronting legal fees for Chevy Chase Voice while trying to weaponize racist covenants from the early 1900's to maintain their white privilege.

These covenants have no enforceable component that limit people from buy the property due to race and they have not had any racially enforceable restrictions for 75 years.

And yet that didn't stop the Chevy Chase Voice people from doing victory laps when Robert Gordon dug up the old "no apartments on the lot" covenant or them from protesting CM Frumins bills to purge these things from record.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

Obviously the corruption problem is that these groups don't agree with all the nimbys who are fronting legal fees for Chevy Chase Voice while trying to weaponize racist covenants from the early 1900's to maintain their white privilege.

This is going to be shocking to the POC living in these neighborhoods who do not want increased density.

How will you break it to them that they are racists?

Are you just assuming that POC need white saviors to rescue them from their own opinions?

You may not be able to reason with a person who thinks racial covenants that haven't been enforceable since 1964 can be weaponized.

I didn't say they did weaponize it. I said they tried to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW, CPSG, W3V are part of the corruption problem.

What is the corruption problem? Your comment reads a lot like slander.

Obviously the corruption problem is that these groups don't agree with all the nimbys who are fronting legal fees for Chevy Chase Voice while trying to weaponize racist covenants from the early 1900's to maintain their white privilege.

These covenants have no enforceable component that limit people from buy the property due to race and they have not had any racially enforceable restrictions for 75 years.

And yet that didn't stop the Chevy Chase Voice people from doing victory laps when Robert Gordon dug up the old "no apartments on the lot" covenant or them from protesting CM Frumins bills to purge these things from record.

That has nothing to do with race. Ask Obama if he wants apartment buildings in his gated SFH mansion street on Kalorama.

[Anonymous]

More on the complete and utter failure of Yimbyism in Vancouver, which has built more urban infill housing (relative to its population) than any other city in North America but is now North America's most expensive city to live in:

https://48hills.org/2024/09/vancouver-study-shows-how-the-yimby-narrative-has-failed-in-real-time/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More on the complete and utter failure of Yimbyism in Vancouver, which has built more urban infill housing (relative to its population) than any other city in North America but is now North America's most expensive city to live in:

https://48hills.org/2024/09/vancouver-study-shows-how-the-yimby-narrative-has-failed-in-real-time/

They don't just do land acknowledgments there. They build. https://macleans.ca/society/senakw-vancouver/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More on the complete and utter failure of Yimbyism in Vancouver, which has built more urban infill housing (relative to its population) than any other city in North America but is now North America's most expensive city to live in:

https://48hills.org/2024/09/vancouver-study-shows-how-the-yimby-narrative-has-failed-in-real-time/

They don't just do land acknowledgments there. They build. https://macleans.ca/society/senakw-vancouver/

They build a lot of upmarket housing that is purchased by investors from China.