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Great, let’s turn the area into a dump
by TedShiller 4y ago
Great, let’s turn the area into a dump
- exogeny 4y agoWhy does multi-family housing automatically mean the town will turn into a dump? Can you imagine no middle ground between the richest zip code in the most prosperous country on Earth, and a dump?
- almost_usual 4y agoIt’s about status and not being associated or bothered by commoners. Anything less is a ‘dump’.
- sorry_outta_gas 4y agoguy's just a commoner with some extra cash, if he thinks anything else he's a fool
- shaburn 4y agoThere are also valid, less severe downsides to multi-family; including blocked views, traffic, increased school pressures, lower average taxes, etc.
- astrange 4y agoIt'd be more taxes, because Prop 13 means the existing single family homeowners aren't paying nothin'. More people means more sales tax.
- tqi 4y agoWhich is it, Atherton can't build there's a water crisis or because it would become a "dump"?
- epistasis 4y agoAs you point out clearly, people who complain about water for housing don't care about water, they are just going to switch arguments without acknowledging that they were wrong. This is a very dishonest way to discuss anything, because their true motivations are not what they lead with. The true motivation is that this person thinks more housing will make the place "a dump". In reality, water usage goes down as we build more housing, because people don't take much water at all. Landscapes take tons of water. Old appliances take tons of water. Take a house built in the 70s and replace it with 8 modern homes, and total water usage probably stays the same.