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It is not Smart Growth people who show up at zoning commission hearings trying to keep the status quo housing and zoning rules which protect THEIR TURF with NO DEVELOPMENT in THEIR AREA. The really do not care about all the issues, growth, no growth, smart growth, stupid growth ... whatever. All they care about is NO DEVELOPMENT IN THEIR NECK OF THE WOODS. Period.

It is these people in aggregate who stymie growth, not Smart Growth people. Your scenario are NIMBY/s (not in my backyard) people played out in hundreds of thousands of communities across the nation. It is NOT people who realize growth must happen because our population is growing, and who wish that growth to happen in a more planned anc careful manner, not haphazardly by scurrying around NIMBY-sim here there and yon.

Well, I guess you'd better come on over here and tell our Smart Growth folks that they are not Smart Growth folks, cause they think they are and say so. They hold meetings as Smart Growth, so I don't know what else to tell ya.