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Some of those opposed seem always to make the mistake of saying YIMBYs are going to tear down detached SFHs as though the policies currently pursued allow them to force that.  While some YIMBYs would like that, being terribly against detached SFHs/car-based suburbia, the zoning/etc. policies they've gotten enacted are about [i]allowance[/i] for an owner to do something with a property, not forcing them to do that.  This sets up an easy retort from YIMBYs along the lines of, "No one is forcing you to tear down your home/move,"  when the issue [i]really[/i] is about all the surroundings of the home in which one lives.

What makes someone want to live in a particular town/neighborhood?  It's the characteristics of that town/neighborhood.  Some of that has to do with proximity to one's occupation.  Some of that has to do with the available services (schools, parks, roads, transit, etc.) and commercial amenities.  And some of that has to do with relative crowding and neighborhood appearance.

And that last bit has [i]a lot[/i] to do with the policy changes spurred by YIMBYs.  It doesn't have to be one's own home that changes to change one's interest in or enjoyment of one's neighborhood/town.  And, with moving being a pretty imposing burden, highly economically inefficient from a whole-of-society perspective, a change imposed on sizable populations already living in built-out neighborhoods, like, say Four Corners with the new U Blvd plan on top of the AHSI-related corridor changes, should be far more scrutinized than proposed conditions (zoning, etc.) for the buildout of entire new communities, such as those more recently developed upcouty around Germantown.[/quote]

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