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Originally posted by lurkette
Onetime2, I'm not (primarily) interested in preserving the land - that was someone else's suggestion. I realize it's not my land, and all of us on this street have known it would be developed some day. I'm a little chagrined about the loss of habitat, but we'll see if we can do something about that - building bird and bat houses, etc.
My question was about fighting a rezoning from single-family housing to high-density housing. The land is currently zoned for single family housing. The developer wants to build condos and townhomes, which I'm afraid would be far less expensive than our houses and therefore bring down our property value. I'm afraid it's just as callous as that. We'll see what the actual plans look like this Thursday - maybe they'll be comparable homes, even as townhomes and condos - and decide after that if we want to fight the rezoning. We don't think the developer's evil - it's his land and he has a right to do with it what he wants. But we have a right to protect our property values within the law - like fighting a rezoning if we think it's going to be detrimental to the neighborhood.
And it's all fine and good to say "buy the land" - don't you think that occurred to us already? We would have if we could have afforded to. But nobody wanted to sell us just the bit behind our lot, and not everyone on the street wanted to pitch in to buy the whole strip and divvy it up, and none of us could afford to buy the whole strip.
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I understand that lurkette, it was just a general bitch about similar situations. The land was obviously going to be developed at some point and unless you own the land it could end up beind anything, if it suits the town's purpose. That's all I was saying.