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I don't understand though how the state government will be expected to implement this different than the local government; they both draw from essentially the s
by tomatotomato37 7y ago
I don't understand though how the state government will be expected to implement this different than the local government; they both draw from essentially the same voterbase that is hostile toward the upzoning as the majority of the state population resides in those large cities anyway. The only real difference is that you'll also have a population of rural voters observing from the sidelines as they have no investment in the issue of high-density zoning
- notJim 7y agoThe difference is turnout. It's way easier to turn out for one single election (electing someone who will pre-empt this NIMBY nonsense) than it is to turn out to dozens of local meetings most people don't even hear about where these projects are discussed. Historically, the only people who show up to those meetings are the NIMBYs. There was a meeting in my city about housing and transit. On Thursday. At 2pm. How many people are gonna show up for that?
- bluGill 7y agoThe edges. There are people who want to live in the city who are forced to live outside (a suburb) who cannot vote in the local election but can vote in the state election. Also rural farmers do not like seeing their neighbor's land turned into a subdivision (this is a form of NIMBY of course - more than a few of them lost bids to buy the subdivision and keep farming it), so those on the edges are also likely to vote this way