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> "but people want single family homes"

Right, this kind of talk is completely disingenuous from the "single family homes only" crowd.

Upzoning almost always means you can build more densely, not that you absolutely have to. People can still build single family homes if they want.

Single family home zoning is really mandatory single family home zoning. You aren't allowed to make anything else on that land, no matter how much of a housing crisis there is. But that doesn't mean upzoning somehow bans single family homes.



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