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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Not of them campaigned on eliminating single family zoning. They misled voters and were not transparent about their intentions for a major policy decision. So no people did not vote for this since [b]the elected representatives hid this information from voters[/b]. Many people are against this idea and it's likely that a substantial number of these candidates would have been primaries if they campaigned on eliminating single family zoning. [/quote]

1. No they didn't "hide it"
2. Even if they had hidden it, it still wouldn't be anti-democracy
3. If you don't like a position that your elected representative takes, here are three options available to you in a democracy: tell your elected representative, vote for somebody else at the next election, try to initiate a recall [/quote]

Yes, it is undemocratic to hide major campaign issues from voters. People cannot make informed decisions if people running for office hide information or lie to them. They did hide this issue from the public, not one of them mentioned they were going to upzone neighborhoods to quadruple the density or eliminate single family zoning. You do not respect democracy and only support it when it benefits your cause. That is not democratic. [/quote]

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