Second, densification is good for the environment. Every additional resident we accept in California is one less resident that imposes more heavily on the environment - heating or cooling - elsewhere in the US.
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Replying to @issiromem @kimmaicutler
Because there’s no density anywhere else in the US? We have exclusive rights to density in CA? Manhattan’s not dense at all. Bring us all the growth - what a really dumb approach.
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Replying to @rihallix @kimmaicutler
You have two assets here that you don't have in most other parts of the country: Silicon Valley and a perfect climate. Excluding people from the Bay Area via land use policy is costly to the US Re Silicon Valley https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chang-tai.hsieh/research/growth.pdf … Re Perfect climate http://www.nber.org/papers/w14238
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We do have a more mild climate than a lot of areas in the US, but we also have a major ongoing water crisis. It’s doubtful if, in the coming decades the public water system will be able to support current residents, much less 2,3 or 4x our current population.
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That depends. Will the bulk of California water continue going to agriculture at deeply discounted prices? Will the state take up desalination? (Or will it prefer both fish and zucchini over people?)
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Desalination, an ultra expensive idea that once again depends on Victorian-Era philosophy that all natural resources are infinite. Draining the ocean and killing all life in it, is not a pro-environmental idea.
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Replying to @stylewylde @issiromem and
So we should give up our rights, pay a fortune more for water and ruin the environment to enrich developers? No on
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Replying to @BARTAficianado @issiromem and
Let’s pack all 325 mil American into California, ignore that 1/2 State is desert, drain the ocean, and end all in-state agriculture. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
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Good planning isn't wall building as YIMBYs falsely frame. It's planning what can be reasonably accommodated. Endless job growth which YIMBYs want to accelerate should be questioned. YIMBY tech CEO contributors & some VCs supporters underscore this "growth is good" agenda.
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I always wonder why no YIMBYs think encouraging companies to move into areas that are water-secure and need jobs (northern mid west) is NOT a good idea, and neither is encouraging more telecommuting?
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They are doing that. I’ve done events with @reptimryan in Ohio, been to meet w mayors in Tennessee, Louisiana, etc. 500,000 Californians are born every year and yet the state only produces 80K units/yr. It’s not all about people who are moving here.
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