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'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