Zoning Kills Affordable Housing – Reason.com.
The fresh hell residents showed up to protest? A proposal to replace a nondescript single-family home on a one-acre lot with 20 condos for senior citizens.
In Snob Zones, journalist Lisa Prevost describes the heights of entitlement to which property owners ascend when faced with the prospect of new development, especially multi-family dwellings in neighborhoods dominated by single-family homes. Prevost tours New England and finds an aging, declining populace bent on excluding outsiders. In town after town, affluent and working-class alike, residents line up to shout down new development no matter how modest.
Yea, I know it Boulder it’s different. Our enlightened government will make sure Camelot stays alive and well.
Instapundit remarks: “Well, yes. That’s kind of the point, most of the time.”
