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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, no one is blaming developers or calling them "evil" or whatever.  That's a total strawman.

Developers are businesspeople, like anyone else.   Thery need to make a profit for providing a good.   And that's fine.

The issue is with the council and the advocates for this plan, using emotional tactics to sell this plan, that have absolutely no basis in reality.

"Dont you want teachers and firefighters, and nurses and cops to be able to live here??"

Well first of all, yes.  Of course we do.   But just like I would anyone making a middle class salary in the county, those jobs arent special as far as access to housing.

But then the plan itself is to allow duplexes, triplexes, townhomes- that all will be 700k+.   What teacher is affording that?   The answer is they are not.

But to sell the plan honestly-  "look we just want more housing, period" would never work, so they lie.  And the lie offends me, and I am hardly a NIMBY by any stretch.   But this is pure gaslighting, and the county is going to get steamrolled.   The "listening sessions" are a pure joke, the planning board and the council are going to do exactly what they always were going to. [/quote]

700k is cheaper than a 2 million mcmansion. And if people are married a 700k is absolutely in reach for a middle class family. Not sure what you are talking about there.[/quote]

I’m married. $700k is not within reach for me. $5000 mortgage? What’s your definition of “affordable”? Clearly it’s different than mine.

But more importantly, the ZTA and UBC undermine communities where housing IS CURRENTLY affordable. Places where middle class people and working class people can buy a home. Fani Gonzalez and her crew want to insert high density developments and leave taxpayers and residents to subsidize. It’s wrong on so many levels. [/quote]

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