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This will be a disaster for the environment, and will not solve the housing crisis. Your proposal will destroy extremely valuable wetlands that we CANNOT replace in order to fund developers. The housing crisis needs to be solved using rezoning of single-family home neighborhoods into multi-use ones, using regulation of the housing market's predatory practices of speculation and the blind bid system incentivizing realtors to push housing prices higher. The housing crisis is not solved by destroying our environment. Those wetlands serve a vital purpose to the survival of life on the planet. Pollenators rely on those wetlands and without pollenators plants do not grow. Food security disappears. Those wetlands are vital to the water flow that prevents severe flooding. It is also an important carbon sink. With the ongoing climate emergency, where these things are more important than ever, this plan is immensely short-sighted. It seems like a way for developers to line their pockets with little benefit to the people actually suffering in the housing crisis. Do better. Even cursory studies of the impacts that it will have on the environment are unacceptable.