I think I read this hear, maybe not but, there was a great point that preventing small incremental change ensures large sweeping change down the line. Where I live (Knoxville, TN), we're still working through a missing middle upzone, but already seen this happen. Since it's nearly impossible to build anything small, the only people that can are large, out of state developers. So much time was spent preventing development, places like "the strip" went from max 2-3 story buildings to 10ish story apartment complexes because there was no longer any choice.
Good critique of misleading and alarmist reporting by 7NewsDC. It's a kind of dumb journalism that stirs up hysteria about permissive reforms. We need more critiques of this kind. Thanks!
People were up in arms in California when the AB 9 went into effect here which allows any exisitng single-family zoned lot to have a duplex built upon it, or allow it to be split into 2 lots, each with a duplex on it. So you could theoretically change a property from 1 to 4 units. In reality, this law has not resulted in a great increase in the number of housing units. It is simply difficult to do and the fear of the 'end of single-family neighborhoods' has not come to pass.
Sometimes I feel like we've gotten too comfortable and are too afraid to change anything, even if we need to. Like sitting in a hot tub when it's cold outside, except the hot tub is gradually getting to dangerously hot levels. But it's just so comfortable right now that you don't want to do anything!
I think I read this hear, maybe not but, there was a great point that preventing small incremental change ensures large sweeping change down the line. Where I live (Knoxville, TN), we're still working through a missing middle upzone, but already seen this happen. Since it's nearly impossible to build anything small, the only people that can are large, out of state developers. So much time was spent preventing development, places like "the strip" went from max 2-3 story buildings to 10ish story apartment complexes because there was no longer any choice.
Good critique of misleading and alarmist reporting by 7NewsDC. It's a kind of dumb journalism that stirs up hysteria about permissive reforms. We need more critiques of this kind. Thanks!
Thank you!
People were up in arms in California when the AB 9 went into effect here which allows any exisitng single-family zoned lot to have a duplex built upon it, or allow it to be split into 2 lots, each with a duplex on it. So you could theoretically change a property from 1 to 4 units. In reality, this law has not resulted in a great increase in the number of housing units. It is simply difficult to do and the fear of the 'end of single-family neighborhoods' has not come to pass.
I don't think it's a coincidence that this kind of reporting is coming from a Sinclair station.
Classic "catastrophizing" to resist any change. In reality the most likely outcome is... nothing.
Sometimes I feel like we've gotten too comfortable and are too afraid to change anything, even if we need to. Like sitting in a hot tub when it's cold outside, except the hot tub is gradually getting to dangerously hot levels. But it's just so comfortable right now that you don't want to do anything!
Selling this at a city level is hard enough, I can't imagine trying to do it across a large county like Montgomery or Fairfax.