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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure who the “you people” are. My focus in this thread is strictly on the zoning issue. I take no position here on rent control or any of the other issues you listed.

It may be difficult for you to recognize it, but in this particular instance, it is the pro-SFH zoning folks — you people — who are advocating for government control and against free-market allocation of land use in an environment of increasing housing demand.

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There are plenty of places that you can buy land to do with what you wish, and zoning exists to do that.  You should go there, no one is stopping you.  Though, I’m not sure why you’d bother since there are 527 condos and townhomes available in Montgomery county right now, not including the 1 bedrooms. There are 647 of you remove that restriction.  There are roughly as many SFH.[/quote]

If, as you seem to be suggesting, there is already sufficient supply to satisfy the demand for denser housing, then you should have nothing to worry about. Even if zoning is loosened, no landowner would have any incentive to convert his or her property to denser use. So what’s your concern?[/quote]

Another disingenuous post.  Are you suggesting that there would be no differential development based on zoning change?  If so, there's no point in the upzoning effort in the first place.[/quote]

Nope, I’m not suggesting that. I was responding to PP, who seems to believe there is already sufficient supply to satisfy the demand for denser housing. If that’s actually case, then upzoning should not result in the construction of more dense housing. In which case there should be no worries.

On the other hand, if, like me, you believe that the supply for denser housing is being artificially constrained by strict government control (i.e., through SFH zoning) then upzoning would likely result in more construction to satisfy the market demand.

Which of these do you believe? Is supply being artificially constrained by government control or not?

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Most of these are fine with upzoning specific areas that are closer to transit and more walkable. They don’t think it makes sense to more than double the population of the county by allowing sixplexes on postage stamp lots.[/quote]

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