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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even the YImBYist of YImBY groups acknowledge that this will do little to nothing to create affordable housing.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/4/26/upzoning-might-not-lower-housing-costs-do-it-anyway

So, in the end we should go through all of this to have “walkable urban neighborhoods” in areas of suburban housing that few people have asked for, and in fact many of them moved away from on purpose.[/quote]

At least they are saying the quiet part out loud now. It’s not about housing, it’s about people who can’t afford to live in the city recreating a city in the suburbs.

Interesting that the article mention Somerville as some form of ideal. The genius planners there let a bunch of beloved local, independent restaurants and shops get bulldozed to make way for a much larger Tufts science lab. [/quote]
Let’s just follow the urbanism trends. Last decade it was all about maximizing density. Eliminating restrictions on height, massing, size, etc to produce as many micro-studio apartments as possible. Now it’s moved on to “gentle density” and walkable suburbs.

It’s basically the same group of people demanding that we bend the world around their momentary desires.

If we follow this same thread, as this cohort ages they will next be demanding more single family houses with yards and we will be back at square one.

The bizarre thing to me is that the proper role of Planning is to bring this big picture approach so that we are not jerking from fad to fad to fad but taking into account the present and the future.

Unfortunately Planning has always chased one fad to the next. Look at downtown Bethesda and their green space in the sky connected by bridges nonsense. What a failure. [/quote]

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