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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good. I’m a YIMBY. We need more housing. [/quote]

Go move to a city then.  I moved to the suburbs for a reason.[/quote]

and the reason is?[/quote]

Because I like having space and not living on top of people.  [b]Let people who want to live in SFH do that in peace.[/b]  Stop pretending you know what's best for everyone.[/quote]

Nobody is going to take your house away from you. You can stop worrying.[/quote]

No they'll just throw an apartment building up next to me[/quote]

Well, then you will have two choices. Choice 1: stay. Choice 2: sell and move somewhere else. I don't think the county's housing policy should be based on your desire to not live next to a building that has apartments.[/quote]

So they shouldn't solicit input from people who this will impact most?  That's the kind of top down governing I've come to expect from this county.  [/quote]

They literally are soliciting input. The whole ostensible point of this thread is tell people about meetings where they are soliciting input.[/quote]

They're checking off a box before they plow ahead with their plan they came up with in Cities:Skylines.[/quote]

It sounds like you're not complaining about failure to solicit input. You're complaining about anticipated failure to get your way.[/quote]

I'm complaining about their failure to actually listen to input.  Soliciting and listening are two different things.  These neighborhoods work fine as is.  Don't disrupt the lives of middle class families for your urban dystopian fantasies[/quote]

Suppose they actually listen to your input, but they still don't do what you want? Or is it only "actually listening to" if they do what you want?

I always think it's weird when people describe duplexes or apartments as dystopian fantasies, but I find it especially weird in the context of University Boulevard.

It sounds to me like you're afraid of change, and I'm sorry for that.[/quote]

It’s not “on University,” that might make a little bit of sense.  It’s 500 feet into the neighborhoods which could be several streets. [b] I’d be pretty angry if I was in that zone [/b]and also angry about the schools and all of the cars parked everywhere.  Oh, I forgot, they will all take the new magic bus everywhere.[/quote]

DP. So you don't even live there and you're upset about them not listening to your opinion?[/quote]

I don’t live in Gaza, either, but I have opinions about that.

Pretty sure that most of the YImBY cult doesn’t live in the neighborhoods, either.  However, if that’s a deciding factor then we should definitely let the residents decide.[/quote]

Do you expect the local government of Gaza or Israel to care about your opinions?

I do live in this zone, and I support this, tell me why the government should care about your rantings over my opinions?[/quote]

I don’t, but you should feel free to share that opinion with folks on college campuses.  Are they trying to get people in Gaza to care about them or are they protesting against something systemic?

As expected you are really moving the goalposts here.  [b]You said that my opinion doesn’t matter because I don’t live there.  Now you are doubling down on that, and that’s fine, then let the people that live there decide. [/b] This is what you are saying, correct?

You live there, so your opinion counts more than mine, but at the same time it counts the same as the other folks that live there. I think you’ll be pretty handily outvoted if we were to ask the residents that live within 500 feet of University.

Your misguided masochism aside, what could this offer to them?  More neighbors?  More renters?  More cars?  Fewer resources for the schools?  More dogs barking?

In exchange for what?  A big bus and some sidewalks that they won’t use?

In fact, it does involve all of us because it’s a test to see how they can best infect the rest of the county.[/quote]

I never said that, and I don't engage in debates with people who can't read. It's not fair. [/quote]

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