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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s disingenuous?

It is true that the pro-SFH folks are the ones who want the government to impose strict controls on what private citizens can do with their own land. They are the ones who want to force their will on their neighbors.[/quote]

I understand the pro-density crowd's wish to frame it as though there were no ex ante condition that influenced current residents in their past choices about where they might live and invest time with a neighborhood/community.  But that is not the case.[/quote]

It’s also just a terrible argument because the government controls what you do with your property in so many ways. [/quote]

But the point is that the pro-SFH zoning folks are the ones who are advocating [/i]for[i] strict government control over what people do with their property. It is they, not the pro-density folks, who are seeking to impose their will on others here.[/quote]

For controls that existed when they decided to become residents of the neighborhood/community.

That still exist.

That provided reasonable certainty about ongoing characteristics of that community.

That supported their determination of investment of time and resources towards that living situation.

Where uprooting to find a different neighborhood/community comes with considerable cost.

Where similar costs borne by those seeking to move in the first place, such as those who might want to occupy new, higher density construction, are a given.

While theirs would not be a given without the impetus to move from the differential environs [i]that would be imposed by those pushing higher density.[/i][/quote]

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