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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

I don’t care either. Our neighborhood in DC is covenanted (no racial clauses). Can’t wait, my property value will just keep climbing. [/quote]

You are so smug, but what you don't realize is these regulations are by right and will override your neighborhood's regulations. If not now, then soon.[/quote]

DP:  I am very smug because my neighborhood has a covenant regarding distance from the center line, building heights, and how many houses can be built on one lot.   It can only be changed by agreement of 65% of the homeowners in the neighborhood.  So far, one builder tried to build three houses on one full lot and two half lots.  Although the lots met all other requirements, the covenant overrode it.  Now the builder is stuck with a rental  house he bought for nearly $2M because he thought he was smarter than the neighbors. Another builder tried to build a 6 unit Expand Housing Options building.  Neighbors shut it down because only one housing unit per lot.  Builder now doing a single family. Same thing with another builder who bought a lot and wanted to do two side by sides.  Nope, only one house per lot.    Until it is worth it for someone to get the  homeowners to remove the covenant, I am good.  And if they do, it won't cost me anything and my lot will be worth more.  [/quote]

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