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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We also need to allow zoning for businesses in residential neighborhoods. Think about all the elderly people aging in isolation that don't leave the house as often as they should because it involves driving. If they were able to walk to get their groceries and stop to get coffee every day, it would do wonders for their mental and physical health, as well as have more people in the local community keeping their eye out on them every day. [/quote]

Yes, so many elderly people love walking with their canes, walkers, and wheelchairs to go pick up groceries and coffee and lug it all back home. Sometimes it feels like all of these comments are written by people in their 30’s who have never experienced life with elderly people.[/quote]

And then the same YIMBY “activists” are fine with eliminating off street parking requirements under zoning as well as street parking near pharmacies and other businesses.  The sneer and call it “car storage” and want dedicated bike lanes in place of convenient street parking that less mobile people depend on to run essential errands.[/quote]

The only reason that model works is because you get government subsidized street parking. If residents had to pay the true cost of that parking, they would probably just take all the boxes of magazines out of their garage and park there instead. [/quote]

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