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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it extremely rich the county rolls out the red carpet for massive amounts of undocumented migration and then complains later on about a 'housing crisis!'.  Why exactly should American citizens upend our way of life and our housing we worked extremely hard to own because there are thousands upon thousands of affordable housing units that already exist but are gobbled up by undocumented migrants?  You can't manufacture a crisis then demand our citizens ruin their way of life because foreign nationals are here illegally and consuming massive quantities of housing.

How about removing people here illegally first, then evaluating the housing stock once huge quantities are freed up for our actually citizens?

The county continually makes problems and comes up with solutions that make everything worse. Rinse and repeat until we are all equally in the gutter.  I'm so glad we are moving at breakneck speed to be a county entirely of renters beholden to our corporate landlords.  The only progress progressives are making is hitting the middle class and making us all slaves to landlords and investors. [/quote]

Our population growth rate now is lower than when a 1960 suburb was built.  If we absorbed that, we can absorb today. In fact, we should absorb more, for strategic and economic reasons.[/quote]

Certainly, in a well planned manner in areas zoned for it.

For example, why are we wasting valuable time fighting about this ridiculous want for upzoning residential when the county could be zoning the Sears complex in White Oak for residential/commercial?  Instead of finding a new anchor, they should bulldoze it and build. [/quote]

White Oak? Unless you work at FDA, that's the middle of nowhere.  The Sears site is relatively small and so far from transit that it isn't really a candidate for mixed use development. [/quote]

lol, what?  They are planning to do a huge amount of development out there.  You’ll even be able to take the new magic YIMBY bus and purple line.[/quote]

That's on the other side of FDA where there's more space to do something than the Sears site.

And no, it's not on the purple line. That's 5 miles away.[/quote]

But much of the justification of increased densities along the corridors has to do with proximity to BRT.  White Oak would have that.  Which is it, BRT is good enough to justify rail-proximate-like densities or not?  Or only when it's what developers are pushing?[/quote]

No, BRT running in unrestricted lanes is not good enough for rail-proximate-like densities.

Is BRT still worth doing? Sometimes.[/quote]

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