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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 6/21/22 9:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > The war on America's suburbs has opened a new front.  Buried in   
   > President Biden's proposed budget for 2023 is a $10-billion bribe for   
   > suburban communities to remove zoning barriers to high-density housing.   
   >  The federal government promises the suburbs funding for street   
   > improvements, traffic control, and water and sewer lines if they adopt   
   > "housing-forward policies" that eliminate single-family zoning and open   
   > their communities to "affordable housing."   
   >   
   > This is no benign endeavor to provide more housing.  It is a strong   
   > signal to Democrat-controlled states to gear up the decades-long   
   > efforts to bludgeon affluent communities into submitting to "housing   
   > justice" and providing their "fair share."   
   >   
   > The New York metro area has been ground zero for efforts to erode local   
   > zoning, and if Democrats retain the governorship and supermajorities in   
   > both houses of the Legislature, the pressure will be on New York's   
   > officials to enact legislation — first to weaken local zoning and then   
   > to destroy it.  Their new tools are accessory dwelling units (ADUs),   
   > which can be apartments over garages and standalone dwellings, and   
   > large multi-family transit-oriented developments (TODs), surrounding   
   > train stations and bus depots.   
   >   
   > These efforts are being fueled by housing activists and progressive   
   > think-tanks like the Brookings Institution, which declared in a January   
   > 2022 article: "By some measures, the suburban counties around New York   
   > City have some of the worst exclusionary zoning in the nation."   
   >   
   > To understand the hostility to the suburbs, some background is useful.   
   > The initial strategy was to usurp local control through litigation   
   > brought by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).   
   > It had limited success because to eviscerate local control, HUD had to   
   > prove racial discrimination, which by the 1980s and 1990s had largely   
   > been eradicated.  So HUD tried other tactics.  In 2009, HUD and a   
   > housing activist forced New York's Westchester County into a settlement   
   > to build 750 units of affordable housing due to the county's sloppy   
   > reporting of its federal housing grants.   
   >   
   > Then HUD tried to use the settlement as a wedge to expand the agreement   
   > and force Westchester to sue individual municipalities to change their   
   > zoning.  HUD's efforts failed due to its lack of statutory authority,   
   > due to New York's constitutional protection of local zoning, and   
   > because then–county executive Rob Astorino, now running in the   
   > Republican gubernatorial primary to challenge Democrat Governor Kathy   
   > Hochul, fought relentlessly to protect the municipalities.   
   >   
   > But the housing justice activists never give up.  In early 2022,   
   > Governor Kathy Hochul, who stepped into her role on Andrew Cuomo's   
   > departure, tried to sneak into her executive budget mandated ADUs and   
   > TODs, both of which would override local zoning.  In the case of ADUs,   
   > municipalities would be prevented from using setback or parking   
   > requirements.  In the case of TODs, local zoning would be eviscerated   
   > and replaced with state control.   
   >   
   >   
   > Negative reaction from the suburbs was swift.   
   >   
   > "This is a sledgehammer to the suburbs," said Astorino.  "Governor   
   > Hochul will abolish single-family residential zoning with this   
   > legislation and prohibit protections against overcrowding in our   
   > neighborhoods, schools, and streets.  The power to plan a community   
   > must be with local elected officials, not dictated by Albany."   
   >   
   > Strong objections were also voiced by the state's Association of Towns   
   > and the New York Conference of Mayors; elected officials throughout the   
   > lower Hudson Valley and Long Island; and Hochul's Democratic primary   
   > opponent, Thomas Suozzi.   
   >   
   >   
   > Faced with bipartisan opposition, Hochul backed down.  But her action   
   > is only a temporary tactical retreat from the progressives' long-term   
   > plan to turn the suburbs into state-controlled, monolithic residential   
   > areas built around mass transit.   
   >   
   > There are a number of bills pending in New York's Legislature that will   
   > be re-activated if the Democrats retain one-party rule in the state.   
   > Brookings cheers New York politicians' efforts: "Albany is awash in   
   > proposals for land use reform."   
   >   
   >   
   > Proposed S.4547 would override local zoning to permit the construction   
   > of ADUs as small as 550 square feet on residential property for the   
   > purposes of rental.  Municipalities would be prevented from imposing   
   > barriers to the units, including parking requirements, setbacks, or   
   > allowable residential density.   
   >   
   > S.7574 would create statewide standards for local zoning, legalize   
   > duplexes and four-unit buildings, and allow housing to be built without   
   > off-street parking.   
   >   
   > S.7635 would create an "anti-snob" law, which would allow the   
   > development of qualified affordable housing in any community where less   
   > than 10% of the housing stock is below market.   
   >   
   > S.9462 would establish a special joint legislative commission on   
   > affordable housing to make recommendations on future legislation.   
   >   
   > People move to the suburbs because they want good education for their   
   > children, safe communities, and engagement with neighbors on civic and   
   > religious issues, along with an attractive lifestyle.  The continuation   
   > of one-party rule in New York would imperil all of these as well as   
   > engage the war on the suburbs in other Democrat-controlled states.   
   >   
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   > Let's go Brandon!   
   >   
   The inner city of the large Democrat run cities are running out of   
   places to steal from, they've looted and burned and destroyed the   
   Capitalism in their own neighborhoods with their ORGANIZED CRIME and the   
   made for TV political riots.   
      
      
   Time to move the process out farther from their epicenter to take over   
   more lands...   
      
      
      
      
      
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   -That's Karma-   
      
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