COTW: Single Family Homes...

Several times in the last few weeks, we’ve read your comments and thought, “Wow, I can’t believe he said that…”  or “That’s really smart. How’d they come up with that?”  With that in mind, we’ve decided to start rolling out the Comment of the Week on Exit133.

Do we agree with what’s said in the comment?  No, of course not.  We pick our favorites based on your reaction to the comment, the brilliancy in it, the lunacy of it, or our whim.  Is there a prize?  No. It’s about bragging rights and glory. So here we go:

The first winner is no stranger to infamous comments.  His scourge of the craftsman homeowner posts have been repeated several times at historic preservation meetings, bar conversations, and late night bocce matches.  This week, he takes a post about a few quaint homes for sale and drives it into an urban planning discussion about the role density in creating great cities.  Drawing quick responses from Sparkrobot, Snoopy, Jake, Erik S, Elliott, Kate, and Crenshaw Sepulveda, our first winner is Drizell.  Here’s the snippet that put it over the top:

…Unfortunately, the scourge of single-family neighborhoods still prevent many places from becoming great cities. They necessitate ownership of cars to get places, their construction wastes resources, causes increased groundwater and air pollution, and makes our city’s denizens overweight. Owning a single-family home is sort of like owning a Hummer.

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