Can Vicki Barnett Beat LBP for Oakland County Executive?

[DetroiterOnTheWestCoast]

It would be a breath of fresh air to have a county executive who was not pro-sprawl and instead concentrated on revitalizing the older inner-ring suburbs.

[Bham1982]

It would be a breath of fresh air to have a county executive who was not pro-sprawl and instead concentrated on revitalizing the older inner-ring suburbs.

Oakland County has, easily, the healthiest, most desirable older inner-ring suburbs in Michigan, so that makes zero sense.

Macomb and Wayne County tend to have far worse sprawl than Oakland, which tends to have lakes, state and county owned land, and wealthy NIMBY people, blocking development.

The reason so many on DYes dislike Oakland isn't due to sprawl, but due to the healthy older suburbs which people view as threats to Detroit and Wayne County. They view places like Royal Oak as impediments to fixing Detroit.

They wish Oakland were more like Wayne and Macomb, where aging inner ring suburbs are no threat to Detroit. No one really wants to live in Roseville or Westland.