the berkeley city council is considering extending the maximum development height around the rapid transit station to 12-18 stories (from 7). a bunch of infosheets explaining how this is bad and capitalist have been dropped around the neighborhood, and someone knocked on my door to give me one. i'm trying to figure out which side are the NIMBYs here https://www.neighborsnottowers.com/
@Paravellex i think this is prettu cut and dry. expensive housing developments only benefit landlords and developers. as the site points out, the problem isnt a lack of homes, its that theyre being deliberately kept away from most people
@Paravellex I'm generally skeptical of anything aiming to limit density, and the arguments for keeping the build limit low remind me faintly of the arguments for the caps on residents per home in Denver that would've made our living situation illegal. This opposition doesn't seem mean spirited in the same way and they raise some good points that very well may be more than a smokescreen, especially regarding for-profit developers - but I still couldn't trust it enough to actively side with them
boosting this because i'd like some help forming an opinion
like on the one hand more housing sounds good, right? but the arguments the page outlines against more market-rate housing doing anything to solve the problem SOUND legitimate and i can't easily tell if they're just a smokescreen