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A comment on California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartments.

Re:California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartm... by your-nanny on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:32PM (#19734079)
I am generally in favor of supply side solutions to housing, but I'm also pissed about the environmental cost of that develop ent, especially in a market favoring construction of giant homes on giant lots.

Not just environmental. Very productive and irreplaceable farmland in the east side of California's Central Valley is be being eaten up by housing development.

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Re:California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartm... by HillaryBriss on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:59PM (#19735180)
> productive and irreplaceable farmland in the east side of California's Central Valley is be being eaten up by housing development

seems like an under reported story.

where is this happening?

is it housing tracts with hundreds of units or individual homes with large lots?

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Re:California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartm... by your-nanny on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @08:01AM (#19737511)
most cities in the central valley are growing. My hometown has grown from a population of 27k in 1970 to 133k today, with massive developments on West side replacing walnut groves. Same story pretty much everywhere. Farmers can make a lot of cash selling land to developers, and people complain about the dust and smell and other pollution from farms neighboring their new homes.
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