[quote=FlyerInHi]Settling is not the same as expecting.[/quote]Please elaborate what you mean here.
[quote=FlyerInHi]Yes some people can afford to buy what they want. BG’s kids had to move away for better opportunities. If SD had more jobs and housing, they could have stayed. She’s going to grow old and lonely. Her kids might visit a few times a year. Many twice or less if they live a few hours flight away. That’s happening to lots of SD families and it’s of their own doing.[/quote]How is the lack of living-wage jobs in SD County as well as SD employers’ longtime penchant for subscribing to the “Sunshine Tax” MY doing? You (and now Scott) are giving me waa-a-ay too much credit, here.
There are plenty of houses for my kids to buy … in their old “stomping grounds,” no less. The problem is if they lived here, they would barely be able to make enough to rent a place, let alone save for a downpayment on a house.
I bring up NIMBYism here because it is the law of the land in CA coastal counties. Accommodating NIMBYism is exactly how the “system” works here! It worked that way before I was born and works that way, today. I’ve never personally engaged in NIMBY activism but I DO believe in it. I’m in favor of landowner rights and clearly delineating multifamily areas from SFR areas from commercial areas (proper zoning). When one spends their life savings on a home with the expectation that their current surrounding zoning at the time of purchase will not change, then it shouldn’t.
“Population forecasts” are just a pie-in-the-sky fruitless exercise. A future population for a jurisdiction is whatever the leaders of that jurisdiction want it to be.They set their zoning, their codes, any building boundaries and moratoriums they voted in and set aside their designated open space with (hopefully) their constituencies best interests in mind.
If you don’t approve any building, they won’t come (except replacement people for move outs). Population size is entirely controllable (save for illegal immigrants living in the shadows within resident’s homes).
