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It's your "within reason" where all the debate lies.
by ggg9990 9y ago
It's your "within reason" where all the debate lies.
- davidw 9y agoThe problem is that we went from "it'd be nice if people didn't open up a slaughterhouse next to the school or next to our houses" to "OMG A DUPLEX ITS RUINING THE NEIGHBORHOOD OMG OMG!!!!"
- TomV1971 9y agoAnd then you spend $1M+ on a nice house in a nice quiet neighborhood, and suddenly you start to care. It happened to me, and just like it happens to virtually everybody in the same situation.
- ggg9990 9y agoYeah, but your needs aren't the only needs. Would you want to restrict voting in your jurisdiction to only homeowners?
- junkscience2017 9y agoIf you look at who actively votes in local elections, this is already the case.
- njarboe 9y agoThis is what zoning should be for. When you buy a house for a million dollars you need to spend half day or so to look at the zoning of the area and then you have an idea of what is allowed to be built. If you have and empty lot next to you and it is zoned for up to a 6 story apartment building, then when someone wants to build a 6 story apartment building on that lot, they should be able to. If someone is getting a zoning change, that is very different. In the Bay Area somehow we have moved to where people somehow have power to stop building even when the building meets the current zoning laws. This really needs to change. There is some movement at the state level to help with this problem and I hope they pass legislation that, if your building plan is withing zoning laws, you get to build it.
- mercutio2 9y agoThree free standing homes, which satisfy Berkeley zoning. It’s horrible. Fortunately in future Berkeley will have to pay legal costs when they pull these shenanigans, and hopefully we’ll vote Jesse out of office.