@raggapegs Veterans are cringing over this. I support his message but not the means he chose to express it. Active duty should not do this. It is against the law. He has a courts martial in his future.
"If Marblehead residents are being pricks, however, it's because the state law enables them to be pricks... If [Massachusetts] actually wants to build more homes, it needs to prick-proof its housing policy." @christianbrits
And we need more young people to speak out for their own future and get involved with local politics. It’s time to end NIMBY zoning laws where they prevent needed growth.
“One of the reasons so many younger people have flocked to the pro-housing “yes in my backyard” movement is because they can see perfectly clearly the way that the Marbleheads of the world have blocked their own economic prospects — & they resent it.”
- @BostonGlobe Ed. Board
On its third attempt tonight, Marblehead Town Meeting approved an “MBTA Communities–compliant” district largely centered on the 125-year-old Tedesco Country Club, meeting 3A requirements on paper while all but assuring no new housing would be built.
This comment says it all.