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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thing is going to pass, isn't it?

Bring on the lawsuits!

The BS about passing this to make the county more affordable for firefighters is beyond risible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mekgNARX-gg[/quote]

Yeah.  Friedson's "compromise" is not between his aims and those of current residents in areas he and Fani-González target.  There's been almost nothing to address those concerns.

His interests are those of developers who fund his campaign and his hoped-for appeal to county residents in areas less well off for county-wide or state/federal office, where he'll wave his hands trying to claim he's done something for them when the effects of what he's proposed are not likely to help many outside of those lining his pockets.

It's his compromise versus the larger Thrive 2050 and AHS initiatives.  With all the heavy opposition in the fall, he needed to pare down the scope to divide and conquer -- screwing over fewer at a time to facilitate passage with less notice.  He readily affirms that more is coming.

And it's his compromise with the less adventuresome councilmembers who all support increased densities in existing neighborhoods, anyway, but don't want to have to take too much blowback.  Jawondo and Sayles fundamentally only question the lack of focus on development being truly affordable, with Jawondo's opposition in other areas being meant to grandstand to Friedson's detriment in their primary battle for county executive.[/quote]

Ah yes, those evil developers doing evil things like ... building housing for families.

You people are silly.[/quote]

Building housing for families at or above 120 percent AMI, which is who they normally target with new development anyway. The developers got the workforce housing price caps established above what police officers, firefighters, teachers, nurses, and other public service workers actually make. I don’t know that it makes them evil (evil was your word), but it makes this bill pretty much useless to the people the sponsors claim it was intended to help. It’s pretty short-term thinking because this bill will probably cost Friedson the executive race but you all never look past the next land flip anyway. What are you going to do when the government stops bailing you out after your bad land deals?[/quote]

The price caps, rent control, rules, etc all are bad. We just need more housing. Rent control has never worked. It will never work.[/quote]

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