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You own an expensive single family house and are in favor of multi family housing. Why aren't you already living in a multi family housing unit?

If you believe in this type of living and zoning, then[b] why is it always someone else's house that should be torn down and remade into multi units?[/b]

Also, city-owned public housing has long and mostly terrible history. I am not against public housing, but I am in favor of turning every page of the failures of public housing and not repeating them.[/quote]

DP. It never is, because it's about the property owners themselves having the option to do so.

Also, the first sentence is basically the elementary-school "if you like it so much, then why don't you marry it" updated for DCUM.[/quote]
YIMBYs are funny. They promote a vision of Amsterdam when in fact their policies are what you see in places like Beirut.

Why does “exclusionary zoning” only refer to type of housing and not type of land use? It’s also exclusionary that I’m not allowed to turn my current residential property into a battery recycling facility, despite the fact that these will be needed very soon for a low carbon future to mitigate climate change. [/quote]

Because duplexes in Cleveland Park would make it functionally identical to the bombed-out parts of Beirut? Because a duplex is functionally identical to a battery recycling facility? Please PLEASE go to neighborhood meetings and say that in public, with your name attached. Please. [/quote]
It’s pretty ignorant and disgraceful for you to call Beirut “bombed out”. Beirut has the Libertarian property rights that YIMBYs promote that basically allows people to build whatever they want where they want it and the result is a hellscape of concrete.

The more one digs the more racist YIMBYs get. [/quote]

So when you (or whoever) referred to Beirut, that was intended as a compliment and a model of a liveable city?[/quote]

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