> one of the most active opponents to these new apartment projects is the association of condominium owners at Escala
Sounds like a good target for peaceful extrajudicial activism. (Protests. Preferably loud.)
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#12Does any city have a well functioning design review process or are they all captured by incumbents to slow down development?
I think a common feature of places I have seen with reasonable construction processes is that they do not have control of construction approval at the city level.
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#13Not everybody wants new tenements in their nice neighborhood.
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#14Irrespective of any economic or legal incentives or factors here, this comes down fundamentally to a lack of social trust in north america.
It doesn't happen the same way anywhere else in the world like it does in US&Canada.
People don't care about other people. "I got mine, ** yours."
It's a problem without an easy solution.
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#15Not everybody wants new tenements in their nice neighborhood.
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#16Does any city have a well functioning design review process or are they all captured by incumbents to slow down development?
It is amazing how one person can have a view that developers have all the power and can never be stopped. Others have the view that NIMBY's have all the power and nothing can get developed. Yet somehow everything ends up paved over with a high rise on it eventually, like it or not.
But that's exactly the point - not everything ends up with a high rise on it. Clearly, not enough of a percent of "everything" has a high rise, or there would be no housing shortage! You feel there are too many, but if there was no desire for high rises, no one would build them!
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#17> Arguing against the project, Escala’s attorneys claimed that shadows from the new buildings would result in “cancers, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders and mental health [sic].” In a world with an ironic sense of justice the court would accept their argument and extend it to then requiring Escala's demolition so that their neighbours would not be affected by shadows.
> shadows result in cancers
So all basement rental units are going to be banned, right? /s
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#18Affordable housing is little better than the drinking fountains for colored people from years past. You don't build affordable housing. You build housing and then prices decrease from the increase in supply. If you're feeling extra bold, you build dense housing to massively increase the supply.
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#19Does any city have a well functioning design review process or are they all captured by incumbents to slow down development?
It is amazing how one person can have a view that developers have all the power and can never be stopped. Others have the view that NIMBY's have all the power and nothing can get developed. Yet somehow everything ends up paved over with a high rise on it eventually, like it or not.
~3/4 of Seattle land doesn't really allow new housing:
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/city-repor...
Re: Lawsuits Block Thousands of Seattle Homes, $39M for Affordable Housing
#20Does any city have a well functioning design review process or are they all captured by incumbents to slow down development?
It is amazing how one person can have a view that developers have all the power and can never be stopped. Others have the view that NIMBY's have all the power and nothing can get developed. Yet somehow everything ends up paved over with a high rise on it eventually, like it or not.
> Yet somehow everything ends up paved over with a high rise on it eventually, like it or not.
I'd like to know what definition you're using for "everything" here because the vast majority of residential land is zoned exclusively for single-family homes and indeed that's mostly what gets built.