Posted on 07/09/2015 10:33:56 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The city needs to move away from the idea that all families can live in their own home on a piece of land, according to a draft letter from a Seattle advisory committee.
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.
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.
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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.
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or they have a crony with an apartment building business.
There you go. Half the population is fag.
You make a good point. How can anyone claim to own a part of Mother Gaia’s skin?
So where's the problem?
Nice. And true.
Wow. Agenda 21 and Totalitarian control is moving FAST
Self ping to read later.
Seattle is so messed up. Their thinking that building high-rise towers for the poor will solve problems, is actually the opposite. Other cities like SF abandoned concentrating the poor into high-rise towers. Indeed, they tore down the poor towers in the Western Addition and Visitacion Valley and replaced them with low-density apartments that blended in with single-density homes; in other words small buildings with a few families. It worked, as crime went way down.
There is no doubt it will also help with the HUD program of "integrating" neighborhoods, as well.
It will be a WIN/WIN for everybody in Seattle!
That’s the problem. They will vote themselves more representation, then vote themselves the power to take from you, then you are toast.
It’s how the left has done it in America. Nibbles at a time. Little bits, rely on sympathetic outsiders.
Glad I live in AK and could self-sustain with the family if I needed to.
Let the lefties of Seattle live in pig pens. They deserve it. And once they are transformed into a Utopia, they won’t be able to get their lives back so easy. Ask Detroit.
Will Bill Gates have to move or share his home with 100 other families?
One of his homes is a 66,000-square-foot mansion.
The gov’t should be able to subdivide it to accommodate the peasants.
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