I haven't paid close attention to this.
Without getting too political,
What were the reasons for voting no?
Good old fashioned nimbyism?
Yes, that's basically it. NIMBYism of course being a veiled vehicle for telling lies about your own community and the people therein (and those from adjacent communities). Let's hear it from the people themselves!
“They are trying to make everything fit under [state] law,” said Fall. “But each community is unique.”
Backers of the “No” campaign say they want to work with the state to comply with the law, but with a different zoning plan that makes more sense for Milton and minimizes the impact on its neighborhoods. Denny Swenson, an organizer of the “No” campaign, said the results show that residents don’t want to be told what to do by Beacon Hill.
“People showed up to vote because they really thought we could come up with something better for the town,” he said. “The idea of big government telling municipal government what to do, I think that was a big driver to the polls.”
But Natalie Matushevsky, 42, voted no, saying it’s already a struggle to drive to get to work in Boston on Interstate 93, and adding more dense housing would “just cause traffic.”
“I don’t want to be sitting in traffic for the next three years,” she said. [NB: There are several trains that parallel 93 passing through or near Milton, if only there were housing that could be built near those train stations]
