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Internet is amazing,  quick search shows he lives in a 3/2 1500 sq ft townhouse,  worth about a million.

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Using Steamboat Springs is a scam

Thats Marie Antoinette shit right there.

"I want to live in a beautiful, remote, small Colorado mountain town, and I want to buy a 3bd/3bath ranch house on a barista salary."

I wanted to live in Steamboat, shit was too expensive, so I didn't.  Easy easy

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They're trying to build a cheap place to house the poors who clean the hotels and serve their food. Servants quarters.

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They're trying to build a cheap place to house the poors who clean the hotels and serve their food. Servants quarters.

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Using Steamboat Springs is a scam

Thats Marie Antoinette shit right there.

"I want to live in a beautiful, remote, small Colorado mountain town, and I want to buy a 3bd/3bath ranch house on a barista salary."

I wanted to live in Steamboat, shit was too expensive, so I didn't.  Easy easy

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The City planner youtube sphere is very cancerous. Most of them are leftist redditors, and it shows. There are valid reasons for things like mixed use zoning and mass transit, but very few of them are willing to present both sides of it when they make videos. It's usually "American cities suck and here's what NEEDS to be done about it."

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Maybe I'm a commie, but I feel that planner's pain. He's trying to enable poors to live in an area that few can live in, and they are choosy beggars.

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The City planner youtube sphere is very cancerous. Most of them are leftist redditors, and it shows. There are valid reasons for things like mixed use zoning and mass transit, but very few of them are willing to present both sides of it when they make videos. It's usually "American cities suck and here's what NEEDS to be done about it."

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I get all these videos on youtube that pop up about how much American cities suck compared to European ones. They are right about everthing thy say except for the elephant in the room. Nobody wants to live in an apartment when you can afford space. And nobody wants to ride a bike if you can afford a car.

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And my EV only has enough juice to take me to the bug commissary and back.

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I'd wager the community planner, Mr Peasley, is from either the East or Left coast.

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The question came, as it always did, just as Jason Peasley finished making his case for Brown Ranch, a development that would grow the size of his city by one-third and finally provide some affordable housing for the hundreds of people doubled up in trailer parks and hotel rooms in the ski town. The development, as Peasley pitched it to the room of residents gathered under thick wooden beams in the local community center, would use density to solve the housing problemmainly by building apartments and attached homes.

"What about single family homes?" a woman standing in the back of the meeting room asked. "Because I would like to buy one someday."

Steamboat Springs, Colo.where Peasley serves as the head of the Yampa Valley Housing Authority, providing affordable housing to all of Routt Countyis a mountain town that draws people for its wide open vistas and outdoor space. The idea of living in an apartment on what is now green rolling hills jarred people with visions of their own porches and yards, who had seen their neighbors amass hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity just by owning a single family home during the pandemic.

"Personally, I would take a very, very small house," another resident said.

"So would I," the woman in the back said quickly, so as not to be left out.

Peasley sighed. Nine months ago, he'd been given an opportunity that most urban planners dream ofan anonymous donation of 536 acres of land to build long-term affordable housing for people who live and work in Steamboat Springs. But it's difficult to get buy-in to use hundreds of acres to build multifamily homes in Steamboat, which currently has 1,400 fewer housing units than are currently needed. Residents might support density in theory, but what they really want is a single-family home to call their own.

How Steamboat solves this conundrum could have implications for communities across the country that are struggling with affordability as their populations grow. Home prices have soared in the past two years in cities like Austin and Phoenix as well as in ski towns like Truckee and Sun Valley. Adding more dense housing units would help keep prices affordable, because many of these places have natural boundaries like mountains or oceans that prevent developers from sprawling out. But proposals like Peasley's are usually thwarted by neighbors who complain about their views being blocked or their parking becoming limited or their beloved townwhich they themselves moved to years or decades beforegetting too crowded.

Many communities like Steamboat are reaching a breaking point. Here, the need for more housing had been abundantly clear even before the pandemic, as investors turned condos and apartments that had once provided workforce housing into cash cows on Airbnb. Then, in 2020, remote workers flocked to Steamboat. For all the urban planners proclaiming density to be the solution to America's housing needs, the majority of Americans still dreamed of a single-family home, with a yard, a tree, and room to grow, and the pandemic only whetted that appetite as families spent more time at home and looked for private outdoor space and extra rooms to double as offices. The median listing price of a single family home in Steamboat is now $829,000, up from $529,000 in 2019. Rents for a one-bedroom apartment are hovering around $2,100, about one-third higher than the national average.

By July of 2021, 60 percent of Americans said they'd prefer to live in a place where the homes are large and farther apart, even if schools, stores, and restaurants were a few miles away, up from 53 percent before the pandemic, according to a Pew Research Center survey. In contrast, 39 percent preferred a community where homes are small and close to each other but where schools, stores, and restaurants were in walking distance, down from 47 percent in 2019.

That's even though half of Americans say that affordable housing is a major problem in their community. As Peasley has tried to explain time and again, affordability and density go hand in hand. Single family homes are much more expensive to build than attached homes or apartments, and they take up more room, and need more resources to maintain. Steamboat could build seven attached homes for the amount it would cost to build one single-family detached home, according to projections by Mithun, a consulting group helping with the project.

"We have an opportunity that maybe no other community has to really thoughtfully address our housing issues in one massive development," Peasley, a tall redheaded urban planning guru who could be mistaken for an Olympic skateboarder, told me recently. "This could really be a template for our 21st century live, work, and play."

Peasley is uniquely suited to helping convert Steamboat to pro-density. He was a city planner for Steamboat Springs for five years before taking over the Yampa Valley Housing Authority a decade ago; his tenure has created hundreds of units of affordable housing. His success in getting tax credits to build some affordable housing in Steamboat is what motivated anonymous donors to give him the money to buy Brown Ranch and build even more. Peasley hopes to build 2,300 units at Brown Ranch, which would meet the demand projected for the next two decades.

But no matter how many times Peasley explains this all to the community, even the most self-aware residents of Steamboat are having a hard time letting go of their vision of a home and yard to call their own. "The disconnect we're having is that everyone wants the American dreama single-family homeand economists tell us it's not possible," Peasley says. The surest way to wealth in America has long been to stake claim to a plot of land and a home, but places like Steamboat are discovering that if they are dedicated to welcoming everyone who wants to live there, they're going to have to pioneer another way.

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They want everyone to live in a shitty high rise apartment building across the street from their assigned work place.

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City planners are just central planning authoritarians with smaller budgets than national politicians and bureaucrats.

They are inherently evil. I try to avoid them.

I'll go one further: I'll go so far as to state that the Bible teaches this. In Genesis 4 we see two branches of men - one that began to build cities (4:17), one that began to 'call on the name of the Lord' (4:26).

This seems like an innocuous distinction barely mentioned in passing, but it reveals two mindsets: one (Seth) that lives by faith (and may well become part of a community - I'm not saying settlement is bad, I'm saying the conceit of thinking you can centrally plan settlement is bad). The other, Cain, rather than living by faith, begins to build its own institutions, and trusts in those institutions. The institutions become a god, of sorts. Of course, this 'god 'fails (Babel being the prime example, though all great secular cities/nations eventually fail) and usually takes a few million people with it.

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Hey, this is how the communists roll.  
You'll take your Section 8 housing, your weekly chocolate ration, and you'll like it.  

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City planners are just central planning authoritarians with smaller budgets than national politicians and bureaucrats.

They are inherently evil. I try to avoid them.

I'll go one further: I'll go so far as to state that the Bible teaches this. In Genesis 4 we see two branches of men - one that began to build cities (4:17), one that began to 'call on the name of the Lord' (4:26).

This seems like an innocuous distinction barely mentioned in passing, but it reveals two mindsets: one (Seth) that lives by faith (and may well become part of a community - I'm not saying settlement is bad, I'm saying the conceit of thinking you can centrally plan settlement is bad). The other, Cain, rather than living by faith, begins to build its own institutions, and trusts in those institutions. The institutions become a god, of sorts. Of course, this 'god 'fails (Babel being the prime example, though all great secular cities/nations eventually fail) and usually takes a few million people with it.

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No one is telling people they have to live in this housing. Kind of like we say here all the time, move to a cheap state (instead of a free state)

I have considered a job or two in Summit and Eagle counties, and there is no way in hell I could afford to live there in a single family home, the land values and building costs are too high. I'd be in a condo or apartment, and that's just reality. Getting to ski a couple runs before or after work, and the abundant recreation opportunities mere steps from your door are the benefit you gain from sharing a wall or ceiling. Hell if I wanted to take a job in the Denver metro it would be the same story for me.

I chose to live in El Paso county (Colorado Springs), I have a small single family house on .2 acre, and if I want to go skiing I'd better be ready to drive 3 hrs, likewise a good hike is going to be a 30-40" drive first at least.

Maybe I'm a commie, but I feel that planner's pain. He's trying to enable poors to live in an area that few can live in, and they are choosy beggars.

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The ski resorts in WV like Snowshoe and Canaan are out in the middle of nowhere. There isn't much of a local population to draw labor from in the first place because of the remoteness. Throw $5 gas into that mix and they can't afford to drive there for a menial job cleaning room or grooming the slopes.

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City planners are just central planning authoritarians with smaller budgets than national politicians and bureaucrats.

They are inherently evil. I try to avoid them.

I'll go one further: I'll go so far as to state that the Bible teaches this. In Genesis 4 we see two branches of men - one that began to build cities (4:17), one that began to 'call on the name of the Lord' (4:26).

This seems like an innocuous distinction barely mentioned in passing, but it reveals two mindsets: one (Seth) that lives by faith (and may well become part of a community - I'm not saying settlement is bad, I'm saying the conceit of thinking you can centrally plan settlement is bad). The other, Cain, rather than living by faith, begins to build its own institutions, and trusts in those institutions. The institutions become a god, of sorts. Of course, this 'god 'fails (Babel being the prime example, though all great secular cities/nations eventually fail) and usually takes a few million people with it.