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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This legislation CANNOT pass! It so destructive to communities and families.
I really want to understand the rationale, but all I see is a Council trying to fix a problem by creating another, bigger problem. The worse thing of all is that the influx of new residents, should it sadly come to pass, would be met with anonimity by the original residents for what their homes and presence represent: A silencing of communities which have been disregarded, the loss of neighborhoods that were once tranquil enclaves of family homes.[/quote]
The rationale is simple: there is a housing shortage and they’re using the best policy lever available: allow people to subdivide their lots. 
This is fine and a better way than using eminent domain to bulldoze your house [/quote]

OK thanks GGW. They're not "allowing people to subdivide their lots". They are allowing developers to devalue your property and make a ton of money (which they will take outside the county since they don't live here). MoCo residents living in their own homes are screwed. This plan is completely overboard. I cannot imagine a quadplex in R-60 neighborhoods with a parking pad out front. It is going to suck hard for all of us. Once the first one comes along, the neighborhood will look like crap pretty quickly.[/quote]
If I sell my land to a developer and I make money, that trade is consensual and beneficial. Nothing wrong with that. You have (rightfully) no business interfering with that trade. Unless you’re a busybody, which appears you are[/quote]

lol, Houston welcomes you:
https://kinder.rice.edu/sites/g/files/bxs4896/files/images/Southmore%20then%20and%20now%20side%20by%20side.jpg
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Yeah....I encourage anyone who is moved by this to look at Google Maps of the exact same block or two going back to 2007.  This area hasn't been a SFH enclave...ever?  It is smack between two museums with a ton of multi-unit and commercial all around it.  The SFH in this picture is the outlier.[/quote]

Houston doesn't have SFH zoning, AFAIK. When I'm down there, I like to play "Big House or Small Multifamily?" You generally can't tell unless you count the mailboxes or utility meters.

I'd never live in Texas, but not because of this[/quote]

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