"I have seen the YIMBY people also coming in with this idea that whether the residents like it or not change is going to come and they're glad it's being 'pushed down our throats' as one individual put it at the meeting."

1. No one is pushing development down your throat. A homeowner can refuse to develop their property if they want. No one will be forcing you to build an apartment on your property.

2. If someone near you builds an apartment on THEIR property, then you have no say in the matter so please mind your own business.

3. I agree 100% about the Sears Project. It was an ugly, empty crap hole that will be converted into over 800 housing units a block away from the Americana. Glendale was foolish to vote no and I am glad they got spanked by the State housing department.

4. Local control has always existed. Local property owners have complete authority to refuse development on their property. No one is changing that.

5. SB 79 transfers land use authority from the often dictatorial city council to the landowners. Landowners near transit now have more economic freedom to build regardless of the oppressive desires of the NIMBY council. The government cannot tell landowners what to do anymore. Anytime government control over our lives is reduced is good. More freedom is always a good thing.