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All those things could be achieved by upzoning to allow new townhouses.  More tax revenues, younger families, greater demand to support retail.  Plus you would have more density that could support transit more kids within walking distance, and more housing closer in  for middle class people.    [/quote]

That's a different point, and you'd have people in older, smaller homes who also don't welcome new townhouses and greater density.  You're just dealing with Venn diagrams of disgruntlement about change.   [/quote]

To a considerable extent that is true. My issue is not with the folks in the older homes venting, but with the reactions of local govts. In the case of the townhomes, the local govts defer to the resistance to change.  In the case of the McMansions, they do not. Now to some extent that is because it is more difficult legally, to stop the McMansions, which are usually by right.   but I think it is also because of a bias towards the detached single family home. Bottom line, the combination of townhomes being illegal in such neighborhoods, and McMansions being legal, tends to bias the outcome towards much larger houses than a free market would deliver.  In that context its hard for me to be unsympathetic to folks complaining about large new builds, especially when the response to them is usually some variant on free market ideology ("you don"t earn enough, so suck it up")

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