see full meeting video at : June 24, 2013 Planning Commission Meeting
In this clip above, the Planner Lele Thomas explains that only Bradley Real Estate is currently providing disclosures about controversial housing issues in their standard list of documents. The Marin County Board of Supervisors, has not yet taken an official position but many realtors are insisting in disclosures for their sellers for legal protection.
Lele Thomas explains that selective zoning for projects like Los Ranchitos 60 unit apartment building is not "spot zoning" according to county counsel. The 60 unit project is situated in the middle of a single family home development with 1 acre minimum lot sizes. Later Commissoner Ericka Erickson argues to keep this project to "prevent segregation" policies. It is not spotzoning according to County Counsel when we are fullfilling housing mandates for the State.
We can surely expect a legal test of this poor planning decision if allowed to remain in the Housing Element.
If spot zoning is allowed to occur, then single family neighborhoods will effectively no longer be legal. This is a developers dream and a planner's utopian Smart Growth fantasy.
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Realtors are insisting on disclosures not for legal protection, but NIMBYism at its finest.
ReplyDeleteThere has been NO PROOF that affordable housing decreases home values. apparently all that it does is decrease human empathy as exemplified by your heinous blog posts. it is sad that you are so against preventing segregation. i hope that the author of this is not a father and passing down such elitist, selfish, and obviously racist viewpoints down to their children
Realtors disclose for several reasons but the greatest is to uphold the Realtor ethics and responsibility for upholding the "utmost integrity and ethics" Disclosures provide information for buyers to make informed decisions. Are you suggesting that their ethics be politically driven? Does it bother you that you have no facts to support your arguments of land valuation? Are you promoting the idea that only "protected classes" can live in multifamily housing and not be entitled to a single family neighborhood? Why are you bringing race into the discussion?
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