ah, our NIMBYs (in the richest, most exclusionary neighborhoods) are mobilizing
i like how one of the complaints amounts to “the consultants did not come to us personally and get our approval”
my sense is that the neighborhood association likely responsible for these is acting without actually consulting the neighborhood. incidentally, one of the board members helped kill an apartment complex that would have been down the road from his multi-million dollar house.
the lot is a CVS now
the future land use plan is actually separate from the comprehensive plan and any rezonings will likely take years to bear fruit but nonetheless i would like to take the homes of these people specifically, bulldoze them, and erect multi-family housing in their place.

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Once again, these things are so broad as to include stuff that predates either the 1619 Project or “critical race theory” by decades.
For example, what if a high school history teacher wanted to assign a passage from “American Slavery, American Freedom,” which covers the arrival of African captives to British North America? Or what if they wanted to use an excerpt from “Before the Mayflower”?
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yep, in actual practice, anything that goes beyond that one sentence in MLK’s march on washington speech will be labeled “critical race theory.” take some students to monticello to have them learn about sally hemings and the enslaved community there? “critical race theory.”
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