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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want my neighbor to sell their house and have it developed into a behemoth 6 bedroom mansion that takes up the whole lot, and I also don't want it developed into a 6 plex.

When my immediate neighbor renovated their house to connect their garage and add more square footage to their home, within a month after they finished our basement flooded, because I assume their runoff changes affected the water table.

Building giant structures on quarter acre lots is awful and hurts the neighborhood, I don't want it in either direction, SFHs or multi-unit houses.  It seems like these changes are most benefitting the developers who are getting rich while our schools and services get overcrowded and the county fails to appropriately plan.

Just three years ago before covid we were having an education crisis because our high schools were severely overcrowded and there was no space for a fourth comprehensive high school.  In a way we got lucky with covid, but only because so many families sent kids over to private.  But now it seems like the county is squandering the gains we made in seats and trying to get the population numbers back up to emergency levels without realistic accounting for how many kids will be added and where they'll go to school.

I want my kids teachers and firemen and librarians to be able to live in this county.  I want real affordable housing options for the area. And I'm concerned that these big mansions aren't helping anyone.  They're not helping me!  But the "solutions" proposed don't actually seem to be solving the real problem.

I agree that higher density options multi-unit options are okay replacements for housing that's near public transit.  [b]And I'm glad 8-plexes are off the table for quieter residential streets [/b]-- I don't think it's fair to add all that traffic and hustle to a quiet area where kids play on the street.  But I think I'd be okay if a SFH near me was turned into a duplex, or maybe even a triplex.  A six-plex?  No.

I'd like to see the county board working with the school board to make real projections for how these zoning changes will affect student populations (150 additional adults per year seems completely laughable to me but wtf do I know) and making real preparations for increased density.  Make a REAL plan for how to actually build a fourth comprehensive school if the county actually needs it, because right now even though we were SO close to really needing one there is absolutely NO CONTINGENCY PLAN in place for getting one since the county does not have available land.  So there is a potential problem with no solution but meanwhile the county goes blindly forward with increased density planning -- that's bonkers!!!  And I would support greater restrictions on SFHs as well, because YIMBYs make great points about those and I agree they are awful.  It's developers who benefit -- why are we allowing this?[/quote]

Where did you see this about the 8-plexes?[/quote]

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