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husky5050 t1_j6mfwpp wrote

Reply to comment by 3720-To-One in Dozens of cities and towns are facing their first big deadline to comply with a new state law that requires them to legalize more homes near MBTA stations. In Weston, a notoriously exclusive suburb, town officials met this morning to discuss how they might comply with the new rules: by streetsblogmass

But you have a right to other people's property so you can live near a transit sration?

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3720-To-One t1_j6mqt5c wrote

Do you not understand how zoning works?

I swear you people think that upzoning means that someone comes by with a bulldozer and forces you to move out of your house so they can knock it down.

Upzoning doesn’t mean eminent domain.

Upzoning means that when someone else purchases the property, neither you, nor any other NIMBY can tell them what they can and cannot build on their property.

Again, if you don’t want anything ever getting built in your precious suburb, feel free to buy up all the property in your neighborhood.

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Tobuntu t1_j6mq06d wrote

Im not firm on the details, whether people are losing land or if this is just rezoning owned land, such that it makes sense to develop it. Dont really care, either works. It is cool how you have so much compassion and worry for landowners but want renters and homeless to continue to struggle and suffer with the very limited housing available. How are the homeowners going to survive with potentially less land???? Think about the property value!!!

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3720-To-One t1_j6mqysj wrote

People aren’t losing land. That’s not how rezoning works.

All it means is that the town has to allow higher density housing near transit stops if someone who owns the land wants to build it.

Nobody is getting forcibly removed from their homes so somebody can knock them down.

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