NIMBYs: “We Live in Fear” of Rowhouses
I’m not going to post much commentary on yesterday’s Planning Land Use and Sustainablity (PLUS) Committee meeting. I encourage you to watch for yourself about two hours of some of the most over the top reactionary NIMBY testimony to proposed low-rise legislation. I open the proceedings with a warning to Council (at 30:00) that they […]
O’Brien Plays Politics with Design Review, Mayor Opposes.
As I said yesterday proposed legislation produced by the City Council to make changes to the low-rise zones is better than the Department of Planning and Development’s (DPD). There are still problems (see my one house in a row post). One, ironically, is being pointed out by DPD itself: that the proposal’s addition of a […]
Can You Have One House in a Row?
Row [roh] noun 1. A number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straightline: A row of apple trees. 2. A line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row. 3. A line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: Seats in the third row of the balcony. 4. A street formed by two continuous lines of buildings. First, let me say that Council sponsored low-rise legislation is a lot better than the proposal that the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) offered last year. We appealed that proposal because it would have had a devastating effect on housing […]
