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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“ All owned by corporations and investors.”. - Yes.

The SFH is also an aspiration. [b]In my view, the MoCo council is telling me all the work I put into moving my family into my SFH neighborhood is worthless. Because someone else cannot do it, what I achieved has no merit at all. And they will partner with developers to destroy our communities.[/b]

It’s the ultimate destruction of wealth under a flag of equity, which shows the incompetence and lack of qualification this local government has.

I am not affluent and worked to become a home owner. This is an investment for our family and what we are leaving our children or hoping to sustain us in old age. I am not asking the MoCo Council for a handout but rather to respect and uphold the freedom to build a future. This imposition in neighborhoods is disrespectful and begs the big question to be asked: Why are you disrupting instead of building true prosperity for MoCo. Are developers more important than your constituents? Why are you punishing homeowners that pay YOUR SALARY?
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Maybe the council can give out some SFH participation medals for all the millennial SFH homeowners that feel like their merit is not recognized?[/quote]

DP. Your response says it all. The smug contempt for working class / middle class people who live in the neighborhoods affected by this atrocious proposal highlights that this is about developers making $$$, not housing or affordability or closing the generational wealth gap or expanding housing ownership for POC and immigrants. Because if it was, you’d show more respect and be less entitled to [b]diminishing and negatively altering SFH neighborhoods[/b] in the notably diverse and non-wealthy areas of the county. Also, many of us aren’t Millennials. It took us a while to save for our homes and so maybe 40 or in my case 48 was when we bought our first home. [/quote]

DP. But I don't think it is diminishing or negatively altering those neighborhoods.

As for developers - they will only make money if people live in the housing the developers have built. Just like people are living in the housing the developers built, in the neighborhoods you're talking about. Those houses didn't just grow, and they weren't always there. Developers built them.[/quote]

Developers built these with a development and community in mind - just like many small scale neighborhoods in the down county. They are older homes that were laid out thoughtfully and have smaller scale streets to match.

Once again, no developer is going to come in and thoughtfully redo the neighborhood. They are going to degrade it house by house. And they will not care about parking, infrastructure, schools, house values, or the quality of life of people already living there - many of us POC, working class, or middle class.

This proposal preys upon these neighborhoods and it’s shameful. [/quote]

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