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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the most disingenuous things that the YIMBYs are currently doing (looking at you Evan Glass) is trying to associate the opponents of this free for all residential zoning with people that generally object to building housing altogether, which is silly, of course.

I think that most everyone would be a proponent of building properly planned and zoned housing.  To say otherwise is creative fiction.[/quote]

+100. I have made this point twice already on just this thread and each time it is met with bemusement.[/quote]

+1  Like the Bethesda "attainable" housing push right now.  Why doesn't Bethesda use the word "affordable" housing, which has an actual definition of who qualifies for housing and which could actually benefit the community at large? Because that's not what developers want to build--they just want to push through the most profitable new developments even if there's inadequate infrastructure in place to manage the additional traffic and the overcrowding of schools.[/quote]

Bethesda is not a municipal body. It is an unincorporated area.  Bethesda doesn't use any words - not attainable, not affordable. [/quote]

Ok the Attainable housing strategy of MoCo that will dramatically affect Bethesda and enrich the pocket of developers by [b]reducing the quality of life for nearly everyone else [/b]
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This is true, if "nearly everyone else" means "people who own a SFH (however you define that term) and don't want to live next to a 2-4 unit residential building" and "reduce the quality of life" means "potentially have to live next to a 2-4 unit residential building".

To the extent that the pockets of developers will be enriched, it will be because the developers build housing that people want to, and can afford to, live in. I don't know about you, but in my own life, I have found that having housing I want to, and can afford to, live in actually increases my quality of life.[/quote]

Except we’ve already talked about the quality of life issues that come from increased density, but don’t bother engaging on any of that.[/quote]

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