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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of talk about bus vs. car.  Not much talk about other infrastructure -- school & utility capacity, etc., the higher burden of modifying these in communities already built to current detached SFH zoning vs. building them to need with greenfield development, and the low probability of their being addressed by the county in a timely manner, given the deficiencies that the county has allowed to accumulate over the past 30-40 years.

Lots of talk about a need to ensure housing.  Not a lot of talk about that being a regional issue, one for which a policy of increased density without infrastructure pursued by one jurisdiction to the detriment of its citizenry will afford free-ridership to the citizenry of other jurisdictions.

Repeated references to examples from cities where density increases have been permitted.  Not much acknowledgement that those are the urban areas, themselves, that considered/adopted those policies as  an approach for their whole region.  No references to success stories for the residing citizenry from suburban density increases pursued independently by a single suburban jurisdiction.[/quote]

The bus is just such an obviously stupid solution for the areas involved that it’s more fun to argue about than the other terrible YImBY arguments.[/quote]

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