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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]zoning makes zero difference to housing prices. sorry. people are going to be very disappointed. [/quote]
Actually, the best research on the topic has determined that this type of up-zoning primarily benefits incumbent property owners by increasing property values but does not appreciably increase housing supply. 
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1078087418824672

Evidence from Minneapolis suggests that what moves the needle on housing supply is mid-to-large multifamily dwellings.

Additionally, if someone was truly trying to promote effective gentle density, Seattle has strong evidence that the best method is through promoting lot consolidation and townhouses.

So an evidence based approach would be to promote more of each and there is broad scope and support for Planning to do so. Instead you can see that they are driven by ideology.

If this plan does work, it will require subsidies and make the county worse off economically. It’s the opposite of what we should be doing. [/quote]

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