To ease the housing crunch, more places end single-family zoning
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#2> We don't have the space to incorporate a city, or urbanized living, within this small village of a community that we have," says Julie Lee, president of a neighborhood civic association and founding member of Arlingtonians for Upzoning Transparency, a group fighting the plan.
Comments to these zoning fights are full of gems like this. Arlington is about the size of Buffalo NY and 50% denser. It hasn’t been anything other than urban in my lifetime. Maybe this lady is 90 years old who knows.
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#3The rage I've seen against this change in the Palo Alto nextdoor makes me convinced it's a great move.
Re: To ease the housing crunch, more places end single-family zoning
#4I hate how that's phrased. No one is ending single-family housing. They're legalizing multi-resident housing.
Re: To ease the housing crunch, more places end single-family zoning
#5I hate how that's phrased. No one is ending single-family housing. They're legalizing multi-resident housing.
While that is true, it also ends the zoning that is established to allow people to live in a single-family neighborhood.
Re: To ease the housing crunch, more places end single-family zoning
#6I hate how that's phrased. No one is ending single-family housing. They're legalizing multi-resident housing.
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#7It needs to be affordable as well as multi unit.
There is a massive influx in many burbs of "luxury apartments" with rents $2500+ and I'm not talking downtown NYC. That's more than most mortgages.
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#8Feels like it will perpetuate the trend of young adults not being able to afford to purchase a home. Duplexes and more apartments mean more renters.
No matter your view on home ownership, there’s a lot to be said of the ability to stabilize your budget’s largest line item via fixed rate mortgages.
This helps but is just a band aid.
Re: To ease the housing crunch, more places end single-family zoning
#9I hate how that's phrased. No one is ending single-family housing. They're legalizing multi-resident housing.
Zoning. They're ending single family zoning, not single family housing - it doesn't claim they're doing the latter.
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#10It is critical that any housing solution incorporate equity, in my opinion. Taking away home ownership so we can all pay apartment owners for our entire lives is wrong.