As WBUR’s Gintautas Dumcius notes, the outcome of Question 7 remained too close to call as of last night. But there’s enough votes counted to see a very interesting pattern: urban areas favored the small-lot zoning reform, suburban areas opposed it. … The urban-suburban divide is not so surprising. Urban voters are used to dense housing, suburban voter not so, etc. But the divide does indicate to me that backers of Question 7 didn’t do enough to educate suburban voters about how the zoning change would only apply to areas with existing sewage and water lines. I.e. places where there’s already somewhat dense housing. My hunch is a lot of suburban and rural voters assumed the reform applied to all parcels. …

Definitely check out the full ‘BUR story. Gin has other interesting local election takeaways.