https://somervillescout.com/2012/03/poll-in-your-backyard/ Somerville Events, News & Culture Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:01:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 https://somervillescout.com/2012/03/poll-in-your-backyard/comment-page-1/#comment-2071 Lobelia McSnark Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:30:05 +0000 https://somervillescout.com/?p=6004#comment-2071 I agree that the "just not here" option makes no sense, but why should we prevent hypocritical NIMBYists from outing themselves? I agree that the “just not here” option makes no sense, but why should we prevent hypocritical NIMBYists from outing themselves?

]]> https://somervillescout.com/2012/03/poll-in-your-backyard/comment-page-1/#comment-2070 Joyce Junior Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:53:28 +0000 https://somervillescout.com/?p=6004#comment-2070 The second option of "I support it, just not here" should be eliminated. If you do not support someting in your backyard, you do not support it, period. On the plus side for opponents, this means the "No's" are almost 20 percent! The second option of “I support it, just not here” should be eliminated. If you do not support someting in your backyard, you do not support it, period. On the plus side for opponents, this means the “No’s” are almost 20 percent!

]]> https://somervillescout.com/2012/03/poll-in-your-backyard/comment-page-1/#comment-2069 Joe Beckmann Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:26:02 +0000 https://somervillescout.com/?p=6004#comment-2069 "Affordable housing" is not poor people's housing, no matter what rhetoric is used. As a landlord on Union Square, I charge the same $1200 SCC would charge, and house two very nice tenants who work for a living. If these remarkably angry neighbors knew just a little more they'd be very, very grateful for SCC's plan to create offices and affordable units that neither block their view nor generate too much traffic, a block from where, when Route 28 loses its falling down bridge, a whole new traffic pattern will emerge. They should do some homework before they open themselves to obvious arguments for affordability: it could go to the Homeless Coalition or the Housing Authority, and then they'd see a very different bunch of neighbors. Who, by the way, are right across the street from the cops... Maybe we ought to invite DYS and DOC for a post-release program, given that location? “Affordable housing” is not poor people’s housing, no matter what rhetoric is used. As a landlord on Union Square, I charge the same $1200 SCC would charge, and house two very nice tenants who work for a living. If these remarkably angry neighbors knew just a little more they’d be very, very grateful for SCC’s plan to create offices and affordable units that neither block their view nor generate too much traffic, a block from where, when Route 28 loses its falling down bridge, a whole new traffic pattern will emerge. They should do some homework before they open themselves to obvious arguments for affordability: it could go to the Homeless Coalition or the Housing Authority, and then they’d see a very different bunch of neighbors. Who, by the way, are right across the street from the cops… Maybe we ought to invite DYS and DOC for a post-release program, given that location?

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