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

[b]To all the MoCo YIMBYs in this thread -- brawling with NIMBYs can help you think through the issues, [/b]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]

I mean, yes, that's why I'm still in this thread - to find out specifically what some of the opposers are saying, beyond: [b]change bad, multi-unit housing bad, density bad, renters bad, developers bad, Planning Department bad, county council bad, voters bad.[/b]

But also yes, anonymous on-line typing isn't effective advocacy, even for NIMBYs. Of course, [b]standing up in person at meetings to compare renters to pernicious infectious diseases[/b] also isn't effective advocacy. I was at a Planning Board hearing once where several neighbors stood up and asked for the townhouses in the development to be moved back behind the dumpsters, to protect the SFHs.[/quote]

Given the many, many posts in this thread that explain opposing or cautionary viewpoints without such boorishness (and without then being addressed with fulsome/non-rhetorical debate, in most cases), yours is the kind of misrepresentation that pegs you as [i]anything but[/i] someone who's just here to find out what others think. [/quote]

+1. I’m still waiting for any of the advocates to explain why compact growth has failed to bring houses down, why housing production is so low, and why the county’s fiscal situation is worse. YIMBYism has been promising to fix all of these things. [/quote]

Are you the poster who thinks county housing policy should favor building more SFHs? Where do you think those SFHs should be built?[/quote]

If I had your record of results I would want to change the subject too. Why hasn’t compact growth brought prices down, why is housing production so low, and why is the budget so bad? You promised all of these things would be better. Now you’re put off whenever someone wants to cash those checks you’ve written. [/quote]

Who is this "you" you're addressing? Whoever it is, it's not me.

Where do you - you, personally - think SFHs should be built?[/quote]

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