"The neighborhood is mostly single family homes, and the people there are very resistant to the idea of “renters” (the code word they use for poor people) living in the neighborhood."
There is something of a difference between a neighborhood having a say in its future and a neighborhood having a dictatorial stranglehold on all changes within its bounds. Does the rest of the city have no say? The county? The state? The country?
Would you be OK with this principle if a white neighborhood wanted to enforce a "no black or brown people" rule? How about a "straight people only" rule? How about "no poor people"? This isn't a purely abstract question, but an actual question that has arisen repeatedly in the history of the US. Sunset Towns have been real things.
It's an absolutely silly question; there's a clear difference between zoning rules based on land use, and zoning rules based on discrimination against a protected class.
OK. Let's try again, without the silliness. This is a serious question that requires a serious answer.
There is a difference between a neighborhood having a say in its future and a neighborhood having a dictatorial stranglehold on all changes within its bounds. Does the rest of the city have no say? The county? The state? The country?
Do you think it's OK for a city to tell a neighborhood that they need to accept a certain set of non-discriminatory zoning rules based on land use, even if it's not what the people there want?
> Do you think it's OK for a city to tell a neighborhood that they need to accept a certain set of non-discriminatory zoning rules based on land use, even if it's not what the people there want?
Residents answer to their neighborhood, neighborhoods answer to their district, districts answer to the city, state, and so on.
How to respect individuals, communities, and a plan for the future across all of those lines of responsibility isn't answerable with a simple "yes" or "no"; however, the onus should be on the individuals requesting the change to 1) justify its necessity and value, 2) quantify its cost to existing residents, and 3) recommend mechanisms for remediation or renumeration for externalities imposed upon the local residents by whatever project is imposed upon them to the benefit of the broader populace.
In other words, you don't believe a neighborhood has an absolute dictatorial right to control all changes within its borders. Thank you for your in-principle agreement!
Living close enough to the places you want to get to, however, often means buying/renting more expensive housing. This can more than offset what you save by not having a car.
I've been developing in Meteor for 15 months now at two YC startups (Sourcery, and until last week lead web dev & designer at Apportable). I've presented talks at Meteor HQ in SF and the Meteor meetup in Berlin. I especially love front-end development as the interface of design and dev.
About to launch a freelance practice, so this thread is timely. I'm working on a full portfolio, but in the meantime my personal site has my resume, LinkedIn, and links to some webapps I've built at Apportable.
/v/, /jp/, /pol/, and so many other boards are extremely toxic in behavior as well. There's some interesting stuff, but it's behind layers of "2edgy4u" behavior of people trying to out-insult each other.
I'd take goatse spam, arguments about hitler being a decent enough chap, and FYAD flames in that sort of environment over twitter where the threats seem real, because most of those sending don't seem to be in on the fact it is all a big joke.
Maybe it's just me - but I think the irreverent self-aware toxicity has it's advantages.
4chan's /b/ is seen as "the cesspool" and nobody tries to make it better because nobody wants it to be better. It just needs to be that place where the EMT that spent his day dealing with life and death can relieve his stress and let go of what's plaguing his mind with "lol, tits or gtfo"[1].
Because in the end, it's all a big joke.
1: Can't find back the exact screenshot were a /b/ user was saying this, sorry.
That's what keeps them interesting, honestly. I see the edginess as a kind of intelligence test: only people who are smart enough to ignore offensive content need apply.
...don't exist. There are many competing schools of thought. In particular, BEM is a school of thought with widespread support which disagrees with your comment.
