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What am I arguing? You made the claim that if one really wanted to make an impact on housing, developing RFK would make a real impact. I responded by saying that upzoning and increasing density throughout the city would have a larger impact than developing a single parcel. Do you follow now, or should I use shorter words?[/quote]

Developing RFK would make an impact because it would be actual development resulting in more housing. Upzoning and increasing allowable density would merely enable more development but would not by itself result in more housing. Until urbanism addresses all of the approved but unbuilt units it’s worthless to me because it’s doing more to increase developer margins than it is to increase development. [/quote]
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Right? It’s so weird to argue against housing at RFK. The only way it could make sense to me is if you someone didn’t actually believe there’s a housing crisis and instead had an ideological goal to end sing family zoning.

Otherwise, it’s the city’s best bet to deliver thousands of high quality and desirable housing units within 2.5 years. There is nothing else on the table that can do that. Sure, upzone whatever. But it’s shocking how disinterested delivery of actual housing is and how much it’s divorced from from other goal that I’m trying to figure out. [/quote]

Nobody's arguing against developing RFK in this thread. Please point out where they are if I am mistaken. I[/quote]

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