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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting article in the Post about how tenants have little legal recourse when a neighbor smokes. They reference a 'non-smoking' building on CT. Ave that is apparently filled with cigarette and MJ fumes. I generally like apartment living, but that's if it's well maintained and people behave with civility. Apparently that is not the case everywhere, and I can see why multi units can be problematic, including for their own residents.[/quote]

People who live in detached houses also get upset when a neighbor smokes, and have zero legal recourse.[/quote]

NP. It’s not nearly the same. We used to live in an apartment in DC and the downstairs neighbors smoked. It came up through the bathrooms where there were cutaways for the pipes. It was awful. Half our family has asthma. It’s one of the big reasons we won’t live in an apartment again if we have any other options. [/quote]

Just think if you owned an unit in a 3-4 unit complex, and if a buyer for one of the other units turns out to be a smoker, you would be screwed with no real recourse.  Turning SFH into 2-4 unit complexes will be a disaster.
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Wait, so the argument now is that multi-unit dwellings simply should not exist anywhere at all because there is a chance that somebody would have somebody living close to them that smokes?[/quote]

The argument is that this is one of many reasons some people reach a point in life when they crave SFHs (remember COVID? Suddenly a little personal space was quite nice) and reducing the inventory only makes them that much more unobtainable. If you reduce the inventory in the area where they exist near the city lines, they'll build them further away. Not sure how that reduces "spread".[/quote]

OK, thanks, I'm glad we are moving away from saying that multi-unit dwellings are per se terrible.  That was silliness.

Now we're saying that you don't like the trade-off of more multi-unit and less SFH homes in certain ares because some people have a preference for SFH in close in areas.  Now much better, but a little...
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Let’s stay in reality.  What we are taking about is zoning, and the proposed changing of zoning is bad.  No one said that multi unit housing doesn’t have its place.  This is like one person asserting that there are too many gun deaths, person two acknowledging that some people (like this in law enforcement) should have guns, and then you saying, “see, I’m glad that we can agree that guns aren’t bad…in fact, let’s talk about how we need more guns.”

You didn’t win an argument or make a point here, though it is the YImBY way to pretend that you did.[/quote]

The argument against 3-4 unit complexes is that everybody is everybody's business and that there is no way to avoid.  If an immediate neighbor smokes, you are stuck.  In a larger complex, you can appeal to the broader HOA board that is somewhat separate.   These smaller complexes are going to have all sorts of problems, financial and otherwise.  [/quote]

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