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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by mikeash on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:30PM (#15536223)
I feel like if you want to control what gets built on a certain parcel of land, you should own it. If you want to keep those apple orchards around, make a better offer when a developer tries to buy them out.
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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by ghaff on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:39PM (#15536295)
As a practical matter that means no one except the very richest could live anywhere and have any control over arbitrary construction happening next door or their neighborhood as a whole. There’s plenty of precedent throughout history of groups taking collective actions based on the will of the majority.
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Re:Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable hou... by mikeash on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:47PM (#15536359)
Why should a person have any control over arbitrary construction happening in their neighborhood?
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