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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm getting the distinct impression here that the person who has the most planning interest/experience on this thread is really out of touch and doesn't seem to have a position other than calling all the other posters' ideas and opinions wrong.[/quote]
I am starting to come to the conclusion that Planning as a whole is a profession that’s as a whole completely out of touch. [/quote]

Planning may be a profession that is completely out of touch. I don't know, I am not a planner.

I am a homeowner, though, in fact a longtime homeowner, and I know for certain that longtime homeowners who refuse to acknowledge the existence of a housing crisis are completely out of touch. [/quote]
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What about the developers who refuse to acknowledge a housing crisis? [/b]I’m still seeing an awful lot of requests to delay things because the market can’t absorb the planned units. It seems to me that developers delaying 200+ units has a lot more impact on the housing crisis than a homeowner not acknowledging a housing crisis. [/quote]

This is just not a serious question, I"m sorry.[/quote]

How so? There’s still a steady line of developers asking planning to extend their site plan validity because they claim the housing market is saturated (or some slight variation thereof). Do you think the developers are lying to planning? And if it’s not true then why does planning find it to be in the public interest to keep approving the extensions? Help me out here. [/quote]

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