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Originally posted by sgtclub
Please let me know if either of you take concrete steps to put this into law. I will want to sell my property well before then.
The question I have for all of you is who is going to make the determination as to who is permitted and not permitted to live where?
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It's interesting you mention this. Recently one of the local mixed-income high density developments in this area, which would have provided a significant number of housing units (mostly apartments) to lower income families was severely curbed due to massive lobbying efforts by residents in the general vicinity on the basis that it would unfairly harm the value of their homes. According to the main opponent of the development at the recent planning board hearing, his concern was that he had paid top dollar for a home on a five acre lot with the belief that everything else in the area would be on similar lots, and it wasn't fair that all these other people wanted to live nearby (nevermind that there was no zoning probihition on such density building, or any other legal or reasonable basis to believe that such incredibly lower densities would be kept in one of hte fastest growing counties in the country).
All the developers want to do is build a profitable, sustainable center. But instead the government is requiring that they lower density, due to intense pressure from the NIMBYs. Needless to say, it is the highest density, lowest profit low-income housing that is being axed.
