It’s so weird how often the people with all the power pretend that compromising with anyone else is the exact equivalent of herding you into camps.
I’m not sure if you’ve heard of the concept of “zoning”, but currently the law is the opposite: people are not allowed to build apartments or duplexes, row homes, etc, because residential areas only allow single family homes.
If you own a single family home, cool. Best wishes, all those things sound like fun activities and I hope you enjoy them. However, those of us who will never be able to afford a single home and don’t need one would like more condos to be built. Now explain how building a condo for me infringes upon your rights.
Not only that, but low density single family home cost much more in infrastructure than they generate in taxes.
So the scam is perpetuated and new homes are built to finance the old infrastructure, until there is no more place to build and everyone complains about taxes rising.
The metropolitan area I live in finance a lot of surrounding surburbs, and the suburbanites have the gal to complaint that there isn’t enough parking space when they work and shop in the city and go back to the surburb at night, or that living in the city is noisy.
It’s so weird how often the people with all the power pretend that compromising with anyone else is the exact equivalent of herding you into camps.
I’m not sure if you’ve heard of the concept of “zoning”, but currently the law is the opposite: people are not allowed to build apartments or duplexes, row homes, etc, because residential areas only allow single family homes.
If you own a single family home, cool. Best wishes, all those things sound like fun activities and I hope you enjoy them. However, those of us who will never be able to afford a single home and don’t need one would like more condos to be built. Now explain how building a condo for me infringes upon your rights.
They fear that their single family home served by miles of taxpayer funded road might be shaded by my quadplex were I to build one
Of course they’re happy if I were to build a similar sized single family home
Not only that, but low density single family home cost much more in infrastructure than they generate in taxes.
So the scam is perpetuated and new homes are built to finance the old infrastructure, until there is no more place to build and everyone complains about taxes rising.
The metropolitan area I live in finance a lot of surrounding surburbs, and the suburbanites have the gal to complaint that there isn’t enough parking space when they work and shop in the city and go back to the surburb at night, or that living in the city is noisy.
Surburbs are an eyesore and need to go.
Condos would be alright, except they cost just as much as a standalone home…