Posted on 07/09/2015 12:53:17 PM PDT by thomasryan
If adopted, ideas being considered by a Seattle housing committee would be devastating to the city’s appeal, KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson said.
Get rid of single-family zoning in Seattle. That’s the big message in a draft report being worked on by Mayor Ed Murray’s housing committee, obtained by The Seattle Times.
According to a draft letter, the city needs to move away from the idea that all families can live in their own home on a piece of land, the Times reports.
“Today, as Seattle expands rapidly and experiences massive economic and population growth, we are held back by policies and historical precedents that are no longer viable for the long-term survival or our city,” the draft letter from committee co-chairs Faith Pettis and David Werthheimer states.
The draft letter says that single-family zoning has “roots in racial and class exclusion. The zoning remains “among the largest obstacles to realizing the city’s goals for equity and affordability,” the Times reports.
“So owning your own home, on your own lot, is a blow against equity, according to this draft report,” Dori said.
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Some of the challenges the city faces includes almost two-thirds of the urban land being restricted to single-family homes, the letter continues. The letter considers increasing density almost everywhere in the city, the Times reports.
With a 19-3 vote, the committee recommends replacing single-family zoning with zoning that would allow for more multi-unit buildings, according to the Times.
That means developers are going to buy up homes and turn them into duplexes and apartments, if the draft is approved, Dori said.
The draft is a working copy, which was seen by the committee last week, the Times reports. Pettis told the Times that parts of it were revised.
The draft recommendation is an example of the problem with the city, Dori said.
“This city is becoming unrecognizable,” Dori continued. “This is a blow against tradition.”
Yes it is that. It is also a clear application of the most radical form of Communist dogma.
Sounds like a developer wants to bulldoze homes and put up $4k/month efficiency apartments all in the name of “diversity” or “equitable housing” or some other bs.
This from the party that once promised “10 acres and a mule”.
Private home ownership get in the way of integrating neighborhoods. So let’s destroy private home ownership - brilliant!
It only applies to the schmuck serfs. The god like are exempt...because they’re special.
But keep taking it anyway.
and this is how the new HUD rules are going to fix things. What better way than to force a city/county to change zoning laws....
How far we’ve come from the Ponderosa.
It's short for "Dorito"; a very common name in the world of "Idiocracy".
so the rich, well connected developer/landlords get richer and the common folks get raped as their rents outpace inflation.
It wouldn’t be all bad to do away with communistic zoning.
Seattle needs a pryoclastic flow
I am so, so glad I am in unincorporated Pierce County...
I don’t know why anybody would want to live in the downtown anyway. No parking to speak of and too expensive.
Most folks work in the city and live in the burbs. The only people left here after dark are the homeless.
It’s happened before. From what I remember, Harbor Island is part of a mudflow that came down off of Mt. Rainier many years ago...
Seattle home owners, don’t sit there on your Obamaholes.
Those council members have addresses.
Wanna bet they are not in multi- family units?
Make them worry.
Worry enough to keep their lights on at night.
Oh, and make them worry about any power at all.
And keeping their cars safe.
It is up to you.
They have declared war on you.
Make them rest assured the feeling is mutual.
No, it isn't. Just go to work, save some of your income, and when you get enough together for a down payment on a house, go buy a house. The problem is not "equity and affordability", it's the lack of discipline to work and save for something when you're used to having everything given to you or legislated away from others.
Besides, why should the city's goals be equity and affordability? The goal of gov't should be the provision of social overhead capital...period. The fact that we have strayed so far from this simple goal is why cities are dying and this country is on a downhill slide.
They are already doing this where I live in Eastern Washington. Of course the schools, roads and infrastructure can't support the growth so home owners property taxes will have to go up.
Within 10 years these Obama Boxes will be in full ghetto fun mode.
Thanks for the mention, and I agree with your conclusion.
Liberalism is a violent overthrow of current society so liberals can be in charge and there is nothing more dangerous to life than a 7 year mentality in charge. Time to spank these brats and send them to bed without dinner.
Someone post the photo from Dr. Zhivago please....
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