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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://moco360.media/2024/09/04/county-to-hear-from-public-on-proposal-to-limit-single-family-zoning/?utm_source=MoCo360&utm_campaign=2a42d0fbf4-POLITICS_NEWSLETTER_09132024&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1bbe9df5d9-2a42d0fbf4-105195105&mc_cid=2a42d0fbf4&mc_eid=d032765bbc

MoCo seeking feedback on proposal to limit single family zoning. Note dates for listening sessions.

Speak now or forever hold your peace.[/quote]

Thanks for the link. You're right, I need to speak up. I will plan to go to one of the sessions to support the proposal.[/quote]

If you want to live in a city, move to one.  Let the rest of us enjoy the space we bought.[/quote]

You bought your property. You didn't buy the neighborhood.[/quote]

Complete BS to suggest there should not be any expectation related to the use of neighboring properties based on zoning at the time of purchase.  There are reasonable expectations that changes to that zoning come from more standard approaches that rely more heavily on review by and input from the community.

Naked political move to achieve ends at others' expense.  Following the money, ends for developers, non-resident property owners, RE agents, title companies, industry-related law firms, et al.  Much more so than for those seeking a home.[/quote]

The expectation that zoning will not change - or will only change if the current residents of the neighborhood agree - is not a reasonable expectation.[/quote]

So you are against democracy and you want developers to steamroll county residents? That is very progressive of you. [/quote]

It's anti-democracy for elected officials in government to change the zoning? How about imposing zoning in the first place, was that also anti-democracy?[/quote]

Changing zoning when a majority of residents don't support it is undemocratic. They did not give voters the chance to make their voice heard on this topic because none of them campaigned on the issue. They did not bother to do any polls among county residents determine whether most people support increasing the zoned density of their neighborhoods by 4-8x+. I don't think it is appropriate to hide this information from voters during the political campaign and then try to push through an unpopular policy after you win the election. [b]If they genuinely believed that the majority of voters support eliminating single family zoning they would have campaigned on this issue because it would help them win.[/b] The fact that they did not campaign on this issue indicates that they are aware that this issue is widely unpopular and they planned on passing a policy that most voters do not support after they are elected. So yes, it is fundamentally undemocratic to eliminate single family zoning in this situation.  Our elected officials are either pushing an unpopular ideological agenda or they are passing zoning changes to benefit large campaign donors. [b]This does not represent the will of the voters. [/b][/quote]

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