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[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]

This is a very funny post.  I assume OP wrote this to be funny.  If not, you have solutions in search of problems.  There is no economic issue in this region.  Area is booming.  Will keep doing so under any administration.  Can't really make it better.  Recession proof and envy of the rest of the country.

How people live is not up to you are really anyone else.  We have no quality of life crisis in this country.  Look around the world and see.

Even if your ideas were good, which they are not, Would not happen -- Congress would override anything that DC did -- no matter what party has power.  Nothing like this would happen in VA under any circumstances.  I feel the same way about MD as well.  At its core MD is a rural/suburb state.  Not likely to vote that way.

What we could do is the reverse.  I would be in favor of creating more single family homes in DC so that people can live in DC as they wish to do.  That should be the goal.[/quote]

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