Before we moved to our current house, a house a couple of blocks away was a meth lab, there was an accidental fire, and the fire department let it burn to the g

Before we moved to our current house, a house a couple of blocks away was a meth lab, there was an accidental fire, and the fire department let it burn to the ground. My next door neighbor bought the property and had to go before the local neighborhood association to get their approval for building 4 houses on the acre of property. They were not happy with the idea of trading 1 for 4 until he showed them that one alternative was putting 28 townhomes on there instead. Then they got on board with his plan. As I understand it, the city would not have allowed a single home to have been built on the property. 4 was the absolute minimum. This is Portland, Oregon and things are pretty different here compared to a lot of other places.