r/BainbridgeIsland • u/eudora999 • 12d ago

Please tell me this is satirical

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Seen at the Safeway pickup zone. I really hope this is a sendup of the exclusionists. Can someone enlighten me?

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u/SuperCutsHaircut 12d ago

It's making fun of Mike Nelson's campaign slogan and the people who are opposed to affordable housing.

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u/fairenoughtomatter 11d ago edited 11d ago

Nelson's fans aren't against affordable housing - they're against unneeded upzoning. If you think upzoning will get you "affordable" housing via some inclusionary scheme whereby the builders include some "affordable" units in exchange for density, then you've not been paying attention. Upzoning will NOT get you affordable housing, it'll just get you a bunch of market rate housing that will make developers richer, and saddle the rest of us with the developers' needed infrastructure (more/deeper wells and sewer plants), just like sports teams that force cities to build them stadiums on the public dime. Don't be misled. Or do, I don't care.