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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
"You live in a house built by a developer" is such a tired trope.[/quote]

DP. The point of "a developer built your house" is: what if, when the developer proposed the building you now live in, the neighbors had been able to stop it?

I personally know people who live in new developments, who oppose the building of even newer neighboring developments. I've never had the heart to tell them that the pre-existing neighbors didn't want their new development, either.[/quote]

I think it's totally OK for current community to have a say in the future of where they live.[/quote]

Sure, as long as you acknowledge that if the community had had an equivalent say when your house was built, your house probably wouldn't have been built.[/quote]

So NIMBYs would have been more effective in preventing growth than they are today? In Montgomery County, projects have been downsized at developers' requests, not residents' requests. The YIMBYs stomp their feet every time a community asks for a project to be smaller but never says a peep when developers come back and seek to reduce previously approved density. The outcome is the same: less housing. Why is one OK but the other isn't?[/quote]

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