Reply to The DMV needs a YIMBY revolution

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "The DMV needs a YIMBY revolution "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unironically. 
Most of you will hate this but I don’t care. We all need to suck it up and move into the 21st century, 25 years too late.

No more tweaking around the edges with low-level zoning reform or a few more metro stops or buses here and there. We need a broad scale systematic urban planning overhaul that completely eliminates single family zoning anywhere inside the Beltway.

Single family zoning is simply unsustainable. We can’t grow our economy if we don’t have new residents and we can’t have new residents if we don’t have homes. And if we don’t have more homes near better, reliable transit, then everyone will be more miserable stuck in traffic and less productive at work and less economically competitive. We need to completely eliminate suburban sprawl. The 1950s planned communities need to stay in the past. In a perfect world we’d move everyone closer in to promote re-wilding of our exurbs.

Nobody should be living in a single family suburban home and drive an SUV. It should be either urban, dense multi family dwelling walkable 15-minute neighborhoods, or rural homesteads, preferably using their land for organic family farming and solar fields and green spaces.

If it weren’t for American “but muh freedumb!” selfish ideology, I guarantee we would all have a much higher quality of life with less traffic, less stress, stronger communities, less obesity, and a better economy.

Bring on the YIMBY revolution. [/quote]

The last 10 years in DC has been nonstop YIMBY and I’ve never seen so many homeless and smelled so much weed in my once safe neighborhood.  I used to be able to walk into my local CVS and get laundry detergent without searching for a clerk with a key.  We’re done with YIMBY.  [/quote]

If you go around Washington, literally tens of thousands of new residential units have been built in the last decade.  Yet Washington’s population hasn’t grown very significantly.  And if you believe in the Urbanist trickle down fallacy, if the demand curve is shallow and the supply curve is increasing, just where is the “attainable”, much less “affordable” housing that the YIMBYs promise?[/quote]

These people are in the pockets of developers and they brag about taking donations from them. They even held a YIMBYs for Harris campaign event yesterday that Governor Wes Moore enthusiastically attended. The guy leading this event was not even wearing a shirt while he was interviewing US congressman and governors. People were commenting on how density cures everything and that "[b]America should look like Singapore[/b]". There is also significant overlap between this crown and the crazy people advocating for "wrap around" social services to fix all the problems in society. It is a complete  racket financed by large developer groups to screw over middle class America. It's very ironic that they rail against zoning as benefiting "wealthy homeowners" when the reality is actually that zoning actually protects residents and taxpayers from greedy developers. The truly wealthy people do not have much of their net worth in homes and eliminating zoning altogether benefits their investment portfolio at the expense of regular middle class people. [/quote]

When DC starts meting out caning to “youth” car hackers and druggie street vagrants like Singapore does, then YIYBYs can talk about following Singapore zoning.[/quote]

Another one was exited about upzoning because it will lead to more matches on Grindr...  :roll: [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics