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The hearings do get repetitive quickly. I'd put condo and townhouse owners in an intermediate category--more likely to fuss than renters, but definitely less than single family home owners.
There was a 55+ community that got turned down near my old place in Pennsylvania. That hearing probably looked a little different; no worries about schools. The big issue is the developer had the bright idea to site it between an existing townhouse community (mine) and a McMansion development. Only thing is, the reason that strip of land had never been developed is it was at the bottom of a little valley with a creek running through it. I'm not sure how he expected to get a variance to develop on that, but he didn't.
There was a 55+ community that got turned down near my old place in Pennsylvania. That hearing probably looked a little different; no worries about schools. The big issue is the developer had the bright idea to site it between an existing townhouse community (mine) and a McMansion development. Only thing is, the reason that strip of land had never been developed is it was at the bottom of a little valley with a creek running through it. I'm not sure how he expected to get a variance to develop on that, but he didn't.
Since prohibiting all economic uses of a property has been deemed an unconstitutional taking, what was considered to be the economic use of the site?
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Since prohibiting all economic uses of a property has been deemed an unconstitutional taking, what was considered to be the economic use of the site?
It was originally part of a farm, a scrap left over from when the farms were subdivided, so it's not like it was a taking; there was no change in regs, rather it was never considered usable for dense residential development. There are parts of the site which are developable, and since then some single family homes have been built on it, and there's a part of it zoned commercial (but unlikely to be developed).
Certainly true of sports stadia. In a suburb almost everyone in town is opposed. In a large city only those living nearby complain. Furthermore the teams want the city or suburb to "invest" in it, which is a bigger risk for a town of 50,000 than one of 500,000.
Certainly true of sports stadia. In a suburb almost everyone in town is opposed. In a large city only those living nearby complain. Furthermore the teams want the city or suburb to "invest" in it, which is a bigger risk for a town of 50,000 than one of 500,000.
This is something that Oakland actually deserves bashing for--spending a lot of its limited municipal funds to bring the Raiders back.
The controversy over the would be new football stadium in Downtown LA has been complex. There have been some environmentalists who support putting the stadium in the city core, rather than 25 miles in the City of Industry, per a competing proposal. There have been NIMBYs who can't believe that the stadium can get 25% of its fans in by means other than driving alone, even though it's been done elsewhere. There are residents of nearby low income neighborhoods that want some of the income from a stadium to flow their way, since they'll inevitably get impacts. The city approved it, but now the developers have to go out and find an NFL team to move there--they won't built it unless they do. Apart from transit improvements, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of public money it, thankfully.
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