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This is why you should ignore NIMBYs. After a few years of growth, their numbers shrink and they lose influence.
Sprawl is expensive. If you want lower taxes you need high density development and investment in transit
Let me get this straight: Many of us moved to Santa Clarita Valley, Antelope Valley and North San Fernando Valley because housing was more affordable, the neighborhoods were safer for raising a family and the public schools were better. Commuting to LA isn’t enjoyable but we do it because we chose our families first. Now, our politicians want to tax our commute?
Highest gas taxes; highest sales taxes; among the highest income taxes; among the highest for utilities; among the highest DMV fees. And now, politicians are going to impose a tax on us, the ones who couldn’t afford getting a house closer to LA City, for driving to work?
I love Draymond but this is like Jeffrey Dahmer being an advocate for cooking classes
Draymond Green says players should attend therapy sessions to help manage their temperaments
“It does because ultimately it helps your temperament. It helps you in decision making. It helps you in patience. It helps you have grace. And so I think ultimately it does because it makes you a better person. And being a better person is 1,000% going to make you a better player because it affects all the other things that you do. It affects your whole being.”
(Via hoopshype.com/story/sports/n…)
I don't think there's a better example of a rent seeking, ladder-pulling NIMBY than this guy.
"We must keep the coastal height limit for reasons, but also, I deserve a fat tax cut on my investment property that's above the current coastal height limit."
Today I saw two cars intentionally run red lights. We spend a lot of time talking about disorder and antisocial behavior on transit, not antisocial behavior from drivers is far more common and it isn't even close
Speculation only works when there is scarcity. Ask anyone who was buying sports cards in the 90s how speculation works when manufactures flood the market with a surplus
Are they hoarding or greedy developers trying to build more? Which one is it? Also, how do you profit if you never rent or sell?
My younger cousin invited a woman and her friends into our cousin's wedding reception at a hotel in downtown Miami and it was a disaster. I took a photo of one of the guys in the group puking into a water carafe on the side of the banquet room.
There's a group of NIMBYs in San Diego who think single-family homes are the only way to make the city affordable because "downzoning land lowers land value" which obviously isn't true or California would be insanely affordable
nitter.gq/TastelessAlex/status/2… this is the only thing restrictive zoning does and the grand bargain was that the middle-class was a winner in this equation but that's no longer the case
Also, no conservative moves to a deep red rural dump. They all move to moderate/liberal metropolitan areas with the exact same demographics as the city they left
I just learned the other day that the Coronado bridge used to have a toll until the voters got rid of it. Now all of California pays for people to drive across the bridge. The state isn't going to keep bailing out voters when they get what the want. There has to be some pain.
California was the first state to hit this limit in every single metropolitan area and other states like Texas are going to hit it soon as well.
People will tell you with a straight face that the coastal height limit keeps the wealthy out, but who do you think is going to buy this property on the boardwalk and how is this better than a few hundred units in a high rise?
The only thing restrictive zoning does is create a goldilocks zone for the upper-middle to upper class where they only have to compete with each other for land and housing. The middle-class isn't even a part of this competition anymore
