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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YIMBYs seem to think everyone with a family wants to live in a high rise. It CAN work, but goes against consumer tastes. YIMBYs ignore that people like single family houses and having land.[/quote]

YIMBYs don't care what you do with your own land. They don't want you being communists and dictating what they do on their own land.

It is "Yes in my backyard" literally. They want to build a in-law unit or apartment building in their own back yard. They don't care about your house. Quit being such busybodies. Not everyone want to live in your personal glorified HOA.[/quote]
Do YIMBYs support or oppose urban growth boundaries?[/quote]

Doesn’t matters. Most “YIMBYs” don’t think it applies when it is their backyard.[/quote]

Exactly.  In DC, self-styled YIMBYs are more like "YIYBYs" -- "Yes, in your back yard!."  Case in point, several ANC commissioners who claim to be for "smart growth" got elected to the Woodley Park-Cleveland Park ANC.  Yet when a developer proposed multifamily housing on a vacant lot next to Quebec House apartments, the local ANC commissioner -- who claimed to be for more development -- strongly opposed it because it would block her view.  When she resigned to move to Maryland, her successor on the ANC (another "smart growth" advocate who rents at Quebec House but ironically also lives in his SFH in Maryland part-time) continued to oppose this infill development.  And now he's running for the DC city council.  They're all for "smart growth," provided it's not in their backyard -- in DC and presumably in Maryland.[/quote]

Wow. They are a piece of work [/quote]

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