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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington resident here. There's so much pure, uncut NIMBYism on display in this thread that it's actually kind of refreshing. NIMBYs in Arlington eventually got wise and stopped saying toxic things like 'People who can't afford a million dollar house don't deserve to live in my neighborhood.' Instead they went on the attack and threw everything but the kitchen sink at the missing middle plan.

That shift is happening in this thread in real time. Posts have gone from "I don't want to live near lower-income people" to bad faith arguments like "It won't be affordable" (they like homes in their neighborhood being expensive) and "SFH prices will go up" (they like their own SFHs being expensive too). Plus heaps of insults too.

To all the MoCo YIMBYs in this thread -- brawling with NIMBYs can help you think through the issues, but but as the public debate goes on, it's less useful for understanding what they really want. Those first reactions will tell you a lot of what you'd want to know. Keep that in mind as you start to hear calls for additional study and delay.[/quote]

MoCo resident here. Neither a NIMBY nor YIMBY. The Planning Department itself said the change won’t result in very many new units, and it’s spent 3+ years making this the cornerstone of its affordable housing strategy. Kind of seems like a huge waste of time that won’t jumpstart housing starts in the county. The same group of people here has been pushing various housing strategies for the past 10 years and they’ve only made things worse, so excuse me if I discount your post that just boils everything down to YIMBY vs. NIMBY. That’s one aspect but more importantly there are people who need places to live and the housing braintrust at Montgomery Planning has failed miserably to stimulate growth. To me upzoning is a nothing burger and when it doesn’t work I hope we can bring in some new people at planning with different ideas. [/quote]

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