Aitken: The End of the Single Family Neighborhood?

Those of you who live in homes in single-family zoned neighborhoods are not to blame for the supposed housing “shortage”. When was there ever NOT a housing shortage?

Three Republican Reps -- Joe Sweeney (Salem), Joe Alexander (Goffstown), and Josh Yokela (Freemont) think that to preserve property rights, all single-family zoning must be outlawed.

The state set up a sham committee to fast-track a slew of legislation that would do just that. Normally these radical bills would never have passed had they gone before the normal committee.

The state thinks it is supposed to mitigate what it sees as a housing shortage so it is trying to override what the towns’ voters have chosen. But there are consequences.

Cui bono? The UN’s Agenda 2030 which is based on the climate change myth and seeks to stop development of the suburbs and reduce the use of cars, the developers who get to pay no taxes on their apartment buildings for 10-20 years, and those who they claim are ‘socially and economically segregated’ by zoning.

Liberal-tarians see this as their mission to let homeowners do whatever they want, despite previously zoned neighborhoods, even if it actually centralizes control and removes choices already made by those homeowners. Even though people at the town level voted on these ordinances, proponents of this nonsense claim that this is nevertheless ‘government’.

One of the above three Republican State Reps has cited “Strong Towns” organization as his model because zoning is 'government tyranny'. This is also known as “New Urbanism”. “Strong Towns” openly admits on its website that its mission is to ‘end the suburban experiment’.

https://strongtowns.org/journal/2019/6/20/is-the-end-of-the-single-family-neighborhood-near

"We’re talking about the end of single-family-only zoning in our major neighborhoods—and it’s something Strong Towns has been calling for since we were founded in 2009" Strong Towns wrote on their website.

Tell the NH Senate to OPPOSE SB 538 when it comes up for a vote on 4/4/24.

Tell the NH Senate to OPPOSE these bills when they cross over:

HB1291 - relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right.
HB1361 - relative to municipal land use regulation for manufactured housing and subdivisions.
HB1399 - allowing municipalities to permit 2 residential units in certain single-family residential zones.
HB1400 - relative to residential parking spaces.

Tell the NH House to OPPOSE SB 538 when it crosses over.

Further reading:

New Urbanism Agenda - Ending Single Family Neighborhoods
Is the End of the Single Family Neighborhood Near?

The End of Suburbia Starts With Disobedience

This is the End of the Suburban Experiment

The End of the Suburbs