Loud backup beepers most of the day, every working day. Countless large trucks rumbling through our subdivision, damaging our roads and endangering pedestrians. A lost view of the river. Changed community aesthetics. Swarms of noisy employees.
Those are the impacts of the construction of just one enormous house in our neighborhood in a period of over a year. There is nothing in it for us except inconvenience. It disrupts our quality of life and gives us nothing positive in return.
The YIMBYs clearly have a case for more housing, but they don’t appear to understand that while additional residential development may be in the best interests of the community as a whole, it imposes nothing but costs on the surrounding owners. The answer to this is for government and developers to provide benefits to the neighborhood in mitigation for those costs. I suggested two ways of doing that in a post about a year ago. I wish the YIMBYs would embrace one or both of them.