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wegandi t1_iuja5cz wrote

Reply to comment by Rixtertech in Rent continues to rise in New Hampshire, bucking national trend by SellingCoach

By them you mean your neighbors. So many NIMBYs crowing about keeping old "New England" at all costs. Zoning is a destructive weapon.

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SolitudeNH t1_iujin83 wrote

Zoning can be an obstruction but also a measure to stop housing developments from turning our rural towns into suburban centers. Requiring minimum acreage to build maintains our natural beauty, which is preferred by many to the sterile and cookie cutter “.5 acre lot house/lawn-.5 acre lot house/lawn-.5 acre lot house/lawn-.5 acre house/lawn” you see all too often elsewhere, and even worse “.25 house-.25 house-.25 house-.25 house-.25 house” you see all over Texas and other areas.

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Lusciousveggie t1_iuk9a0k wrote

You got it wrong. A lot of zoning has created suburbia and destroyed rural areas in the process.

Instead of minimum acreage requirements, allowing mixed use high density development keeps a large number of people in a smaller space, enriching our cities and maintaining our rural areas.

Instead, with modern zoning, Mcmansions and strip malls plow down our forests

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