Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Metropolitan DC Local Politics
Reply to "MOCO - County Wide Upzoning, Everywhere"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]It’s not the big developers who are lobbying for this. The big developers shifted blame for housing shortages to zoning, so upzoning became the preferred policy solution over land value tax, enforcement of antitrust laws, or other mechanisms to make supply manipulation more costly. The big developers aren’t opposed to upzoning but they’re not pressing for it the same way they pressed for subsidies or opposing it the same way they lined up against rent control. They know the impact on their businesses will be negligible if there’s any impact at all. The county council (primarily Hucker and Riemer) pushed planning to do this, and even planning knows that upzoning won’t have much impact. But it’s an opportunity for planning and the council to make it look like they care about housing prices, and the most vocal advocates all have zoning as their top issue, so they’ll do upzoning. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
