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Folks moved into a single family home region/city for a reason - to live in not a mass developed community. Now outsiders would force them that they can't do so

• caturopath 6y ago
  > Folks moved into a single family home region/city for a reason (To get away from Black people.)
• endisneigh 6y ago
  1. Historically that's not true. 2. Even if it were true, that would imply SFH are superior. There would be no need to make SFH-zoning mandatory then. The free market would show that SFH is the most cost-effective. 3. If there were folks living in an area that was previously SFH-only that's now becoming more and more filled with multi-families that would imply their SFH are now worth more and more. If they actually prefer SFH living they would cash-out and move to an unpopular area where SFHs are the norm. In practice what a lot of these people want is to live in a popular area, but not have any neighbors. In effect this is at odds with a democracy - the will of the minority must not override the majority.
• jeffbee 6y ago
  That clearly isn’t true of Berkeley. The current zoning and design rules of Berkeley outlaw Berkeley as it stands. The current question is whether we should return to the rules under which 85% of the city was built.