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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asking people that work in DC to go live in Baltimore is the absolute most NIMBY thing you can say

You already got yours in the DC area and now zoning has to stay frozen in amber so you can have a detached SFH close to metro. Ridiculous. [/quote]

OP will have that regardless of zoning changes (unless they decide to sell). What OP wants is [u]their neighborhood[/u] to stay frozen in amber. Which is pretty entitled, given that OP doesn't own their neighborhood.[/quote]

What developers want are greater profit margins than currently available, so they push for changes to zoning for them to buy & build in neighborhoods [u]that are not theirs at all[/u].  Which is why they seek a YIMBY to shill for them.

On an anonymous forum, though, they don't even need to do that.  They can just claim they are the YIMBY in the first place, as nobody could prove them false.[/quote]

Wait, what? Developers are building on property they don't own? That seems like a problem. You definitely should have to own the property in order to be the owner of that property.[/quote]

Not sure if you are being intentionally daft to distract, or if you are just confused.

No matter.  Developers would look for this zoning change first, [i]then[/i] buy & build, as stated.  They typically don't deploy the capital for a purchase until they are relatively certain of their return on investment.[/quote]

Ok? And?[/quote]

Now I'm sure you're being intentionally daft and didn't have a point to make while ignoring counters to the idea that folks should have no say in their own communities while developers should.[/quote]

[b]You have a say, by voting.[/b]

Developers who buy property in your community are property owners just like you (presumably) and your neighbors (presumably) are.[/quote]

Faulty reasoning, there.  Junior and His Orangeness were voted in.  Does that mean everything they did was just and that others shouldn't have resisted?

You continue to ignore that developers typically don't buy on spec, but advocate for the profit-expanding zoning and then buy.  They typically don't live in the neighborhoods they affect, or even similar neighborhoods.[/quote]

Junior and His Orangeness do not have authority over zoning in Montgomery County. The Montgomery County Council does.[/quote]

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