Re:More housing near the Expo Line and other California tran...
by rayiner on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:57PM
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> I'll turn the argument around. If you want to pack yourselves into cities, go move into cities.
The similar situation would be: you want to live in a dense urban neighborhood, but instead of moving to the city, you get a law passed that requires any new buildings in your suburban neighborhood to be a mid-rise condo. It's not a question of whose aesthetic preferences are more valid, but whether it's legitimate to invoke aesthetic preferences to limit peoples' property rights.
The similar situation would be: you want to live in a dense urban neighborhood, but instead of moving to the city, you get a law passed that requires any new buildings in your suburban neighborhood to be a mid-rise condo. It's not a question of whose aesthetic preferences are more valid, but whether it's legitimate to invoke aesthetic preferences to limit peoples' property rights.