By Dom Nozzi
October 15, 2017
There are people in Boulder who regularly state that the City Council has turned a blind eye/ear to neighborhood concerns. That they are not concerned about “protecting neighborhood character” (which is a transparent euphemism for NIMBYism) in their allegedly corrupt rush as Council members to ruin Boulder with rapid, uncontrolled growth.
The NIMBYs also make the bizarre claim that this “out of control” Council will lead to environmental degradation and loss of affordable housing.
But I utterly fail to see how the positions of the NIMBY people will achieve these worthy objectives if, as is clear to anyone paying attention, their positions result in a big jump in car travel and a perpetuation of rapidly rising housing costs.
If you oppose, as nearly all of these NIMBYs do:
Smaller homes
ADUs
Co-ops
Smaller lot sizes
Smaller setbacks
More neighborhood mixed use
Less parking (and the conversion of existing parking to housing)
More density
Priced parking
Buildings over one or two stories
Road diets
…you are thereby calling for more per capita car trips, more carbon/air emissions, much higher housing costs, a continuation of neighborhood character being changed by the in-migration of much more wealthy residents, and sprawl into outlying towns.
Oops.
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