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@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler Hilarious the things you guys hate the Trump admin for doing to the state are the exact same things the state is doing to the municipalities. Sleep on that. I bookmarked your other post for when there’s a resolution.

@illB0S @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler Just remember this when your head hits the pillow: "[T]he powers of a town and of its town meeting, and the very existence of the town, are subject to the will of the Legislature." Commonwealth v. Hudson, 315 Mass. 335 (1943) Have a great night 😘😘

This gentleman perfectly explains why planning mandate fair housing systems that preserve local control do not work and state legislatures should directly upzone: bad-faith NIMBY cities will always pretend to plan for housing on land they know will never actually get developed.

@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler Ok, King. Guess the No Kings philosophy only applies to things you don’t like. Best of luck with that though. I don’t think the state will win against the towns that straight up said no never mind ones that complied on paper.

@illB0S @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler Don't worry, we absolutely will

@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler The state hasn’t even won its case against the defectors yet and you think they’ll come after the paper compliance towns? Lol

@illB0S @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler I'm sorry but are you really so naive as to think these too-clever-by-half maneuvers will actually be tolerated by the state and your fellow citizens in the long run?

@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler …of course it will. No Kings, after all.

@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler What’s next though, are you going to ban single family homes and bring the weight of the state on the suburbs to turn into major cities?

@illB0S @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler If you won't pull your weight—as you admit, I'm afraid you'll have to be disciplined by the Commonwealth.

@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler You’re also free to build as many skyscrapers as you want in Boston to alleviate housing demand. You have the infrastructure to do so.

@illB0S @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler Well, fortunately for me, the majority of Bay Staters support the law, an overwhelming majority of our representatives do too, and it will only be a matter of time before Marblehead, your town, and others accept that they have to pull their weight

@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler And that’s the basis of this debate and I’m on the side that doesn’t believe it’s just for the state to mandate the Communities Act. Marblehead and the town I live in rejected the premise by placing the “compliant” land in areas that will never actually be developed

@illB0S @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler I don't. But they're citizens of and owe duties to the Commonwealth too. If you fail to uphold your end of the bargain of living in this great society we've built, the Commonwealth can, should, and—as the Communities Act shows—will supersede local control.

@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler By being citizens of the town. That’s typically how it works. And while some inherited, most worked their butts off to be able to afford to live in Marblehead. Why do you, a person from Boston, think you have any right to tell another municipality what to do?

@illB0S @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler Yes. Earned it how?

@HughLouisDewey @MarkMandalorian @maxdubler How did townies earn the right to administer their town how they see fit? Lol unserious take

@MarkMandalorian @illB0S @maxdubler Earned it how?

@ManMitchLegend @maxdubler @johnreardon68 I want to live the suburbs and keep them suburbs. I want a yard and I don’t want to live stacked like sardines. I have zero desire to live in Boston or any extremely dense area. And you’re advocating to change all these small towns into cities.

@illB0S @maxdubler @johnreardon68 You want Mass to shrivel and die? Why? What do you get out of this?

@maxdubler @ManMitchLegend @johnreardon68 Feel free to toss in Cambridge and Somerville to the metro too. Those would count.

@maxdubler @ManMitchLegend @johnreardon68 See that purple area? That’s the Boston metro. And revere is a stretch in itself. Now go up along the coast a few more towns and you’ll finally get to Marblehead. This is t the Bay Area.

@illB0S @ManMitchLegend @johnreardon68 The suburbs of a major city are not “small towns,” they are part of the city.

@ManMitchLegend @maxdubler @johnreardon68 Why do you think you’re entitled to live here? I can’t afford Marblehead either so I don’t live there. That’s *ok*. There’s plenty of decent places to live where a tiny house doesn’t cost a million

@illB0S @maxdubler @johnreardon68 Not if people keep turning doubles into single family homes, dropping the supply further to keep the middle and lower classes out. You’re saying the only way I deserve to have a shot at living there is to wait for the boomers to die or become a millionaire

@ManMitchLegend @maxdubler @johnreardon68 You really like to jump to the extreme end of every argument lol

@ManMitchLegend @maxdubler @johnreardon68 No one’s turning doubles into singles lol. It only goes the other way turning one into two. Been that way for a long time

@ManMitchLegend @maxdubler @johnreardon68 Seems you should be rooting for that tbh

@illB0S @maxdubler @johnreardon68 It’s losing population and families like mine have been continuously priced out and moving to the sunbelt, Mass may lose a congressional seat worth of people, that’s not natural, that’s your preferred policy

@ManMitchLegend @maxdubler @johnreardon68 Do you think this state will just grow endlessly?

@illB0S @maxdubler @johnreardon68 So you want your families to be priced out so that after you die your family stays away from this area?