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The Henry Hudson Parkway (my nearest highway) should be buried & have its old right of way replaced by a railroad/boulevard.

Infinite park glitch!! Build highways, people will complain about the highways, then cover them all with parks!

Yes let's be sheep

Money grab back in the 1950s. Federal government sold out the American people

those "affordable" multi-family housing would be like $300k starting with a $500 HOA fee.

"modeled after the German Autobahn"… but in Germany we do a few things different. Here the Autobahn always loops around the city. If you look at Hamburg, there's the A7 in the west and the A1 in the east, which then cross right north of the town Seevetal. A city might have grown beyond the Autobahn, but then there is like a zillion bridges. Within the city, you'll only find conventional roads with rarely even three lanes per direction - and even those are seen as problematic. But we also keep the access limited to only a few spots, because they are not meant for driving within the city, but for connecting cities. So you'd never see off-ramps beginning before the previous on-ramp has even begun or other super complicate connections.

Prairie village is falling behind the rest of Johnson county as far as multifamily. Johnson county has quite a bit of multi-family.

Fantastic viseo, can't believe not many people saw this video

Why fight for single family zoning when you’re on the edge of living in a nursing home which is essentially an MDU?

Whoa hadn’t heard about this before!

Yet another regressive tax!

If I had a nickel for every time Washingtonians created an earthquake I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

The question us non-football fans have been asking for years!!!

🗣️ taylor swift mention

Meanwhile Indianapolis is building a stadium for a soccer team that isn’t even in the MLS. Transit be damned

I'm not a huge fan of this idea. Burying highways is extremely expensive, and the payoff is dubious at best. Yes, you can argue that property values increased, and that that overcomes the cost of the project itself, but if you look into it more, you'll see that the big dig only succeeded because it siphoned money from transit projects, which would have been far impactful for the city. Ultimately burying highways just furthers car dependency, but it makes us feel better about it, because the problem is not in the public eye. When you think about it, you're still dumping tons of cars into urban areas, and those cars still take up inordinate amounts of space for parking and roadways. Better to just tear it down and build transit, like most functional cities in the planet.

INDIVIDUALISM IGNORES THE EVIDENT NEED FOR COLLECTIVE COOPERATION TO FLOURISH. INDIVIDUALISTS CANNOT BELIEVE THEIR LYING EYES WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR EUES EVERY MORNING.

This is why I'm in favor of overarching state/federal action on this issue. While I think the concerns are wrong, e.g. property values won't actually drop, it's hard to fault people for voting to protect their bottom line when they are misinformed. Ultimately, this issue lies with the fact that we basically turned housing into an asset/investment starting in the 30s, and that's basically why housing costs have increased so much over the years.

I hate ugly and boring suburbs

Nimbys have completely created outdated urbanism thats practically excludes younger people, single residents, pocs and ironically seniors who want to downsize. It's absolutely no wonder there's a housing crisis and supply issues

While I also don’t like having the doctor be responsible for something so horrific on a personal and selfish level, I love the middle idea of having her grapple with the timelords doing that and what it means for her. That could have been one of the most emotionally wrenching and relevant stories ever told by the show.

The fact that anyone is against ADUs or duplexes is insane. ADUs are basically just turning a garage on a single family lot into an apartment, and the only way they’d be constructed is if a property owner allows/wants it, so it’s not like a developer is coming in and dumping a 10-story building into a suburban neighborhood. Same with duplexes, or mixed use development in downtown/commercial areas.

And if the interstates had bypassed cities, the woke leftists would now be complaining about "vehicular segregation".

We need to start calling suburbanites what they truly are. Welfare Queens.

Unfortunately Americans are spoiled by car-centric infrastructure. Removing/replacing any of it even with a great value proposition will face lots of opposition because you already built it and used it so naturally you want it to stay.

i hate nimbys with a passion. they are single handedly responsible for most of the issues of my home state of california.

Please don’t use time as a proxy for distance. First, it assumes car travel as the default & only suitable method. Second, it doesn’t take into consideration the time of the day or week. Third, it is so generalized that it can’t account for the parking and travel the actual destination. A range in miles is best, and including whether transit is available would balloon you to a whole other quality level beyond most TH-camrs!

“Road reparations” lmfao 😂✊🏿

Honestly, as someone who grew up in a pretty white, middle class, decent suburb, who knows I can't afford to buy in my home town, I found this to be rather tone deaf. The blatantly put their fingers in their ears. The reason why most old people don't want to allow housing changes is because in the US, people view their homes as an investment which may as well be their retirement account. My parents are not racist, but they have basically NO assets to their name besides their home (bought for $200k, now worth $600k+). But sure, let's blame the lack of financial support for seniors in this country on racism and bigotry...

Single Family zoning is state-sanctioned class segregation. It's a racist and classist 20th century invention, and it needs to be abolished.

Now do one on HOAs, please! The research on HOA impacts on home values seem a little sparse, but maybe there's more available buried under all the CAI propaganda.

high quality content right here

Progress is when the will of the locals is subverted to make your town worse ;)

I'm a NIMBY because my neighbors are crazy people. Bass bumping until 2am so loud it makes my windows rattle. My wife is a nurse in a nursing shortage. She has average 50-70 lives she is responsible for daily. Not only does she have to do things like control people with dementia and check blood sugar levels but also she is the only human contact these people get. 60 people is 1 minute per hour per person to change diapers and bandages while still making these people feel human. If my neighbors keep us up all night because they are having a craft fair night market and people are literally parking in our driveway, leaving dirty diapers it kinda disrupts our sleep and ability to be effective caretakers. I'm sorry I care more for the elderly and disabled than you having fun and "getting your hustle on". I agree, HOAS and Karens suck. But you also have to accept that the polar opposite exists. People who don't give a FFF about anyone but themselves and their party lifestyle. I have the right to a good nights rest. This is my home, my residence. I have nowhere else to go. Take your business elsewhere. If people knew how to respect others and be considerate I wouldn't mind business in my neighborhood but my neighbors are a-holes who take advantage of it and are literally ruining my life.

very well made video!

Such a great video! Reminds me of something I would see from Vox. It's inspiring to see new creators make quality content like this cause it makes me feel like I can do it too. Keep it up! :)

Awesome video! Hope to see more from this channel :)

This is the only way but in the city

NIMBYism is truly the worst. The roads in my town are horrible, and instead of people being happy that people want to move here they're instead blocking new development and keeping our towns tax base minimal, which prevents the town from being able to afford to fix them. It's unsustainable. There was supposed to be a new condo development near me that was blocked by residents because it would create "Traffic issues". Our town does not suffer from traffic issues and a couple new units wouldn't change that.

It's like an exculsive club with a $400,000 buy in

I wonder, at 3:20 when it’s talking about the negative health effects of living next to a highway (increased cancer risk, increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest),I wonder if that study is just correlation, did they control for income? A lot of negative health effects correlate with low income, and houses next to major highways would have lower property values.

odds are those same people have an “in my america...” sign in their front yard…

I love how boomers would rather see homeless people with dilapidated tents and garbage outside than high rise apartments.

The only thing thats going to change car dependent car culture is reliable USEABLE SAFE, public transportation, Nobody that has the choice is going give up driving to spend twice as much time on a shotty system that doesn't run all the time or has limited schedules on weekends/late night etc., just so they can sit on a bus or something next to someone that hasn't taken a shower in weeks or is doing drugs on the bus, not to mention the possibility of getting attacked or mugged between your destinations and the actual bus/transit stops, or on the transit vehicle it self, covering up highways isn't changing shit, the US/north America has to take public transport seriously, and stop letting criminals and addicts make the rules.

Exclusionary zoning, parking minimums, set back rules, height restrictions, lot sizes and FAR ratios should be abolished. Let developers build what the market demands rather than pander to selfish NIMBYs who are against progress

Another great video

Lol another proof the US isn’t the greatest country😂

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Increased property values and more attractive neighbourhoods? That also sounds like gentrification, driving up rents and pushing out the marginalised in favour of those who can afford it. This would also favour the specialist corporate office types who can live close to their employment and push the marginalised out to the outer suburbs where they are forced to commute by car because of the greater distances involved and reduce their ability to afford access to what they need. It seems those driving the agenda are themselves the ‘gentry’ (well-paid academics) seeking to ‘gentrify’ the great unwashed masses out of their boho brownstones.

Born and raised in Dallas. Thank you for highlighting Klyde Warren Park. It’s like our own Central Park!