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Anonymous
No, it's not a false choice. These are the proposed changes. If you support change - but not the actual proposed changes, you support some other changes that are not being proposed - then you're supporting the status quo. You're correct, though, that the presumption is that it's not good for there to be areas where the only allowable land use is single family houses. |
Anonymous
It is a false choice, albeit one forced by the fact that Montgomery Planning did nothing (at the direction of the Planning Board, at the behest of the County Council) to detail alternatives for consideration. There are alternatives that present both better prospects with regard to infrastructure adequacy/cost and less undercutting of the reasonable expectations of current residents when they previously made those highly personally consequential residency decisions. Several have been presented in other threads (e.g., the 100-plus-page "MOCO - County Wide Upzoning, Everywhere" that preceded this one, the 70-page "More MOCO Upzoning - Starting in Silver Spring" which preceded that and the almost-30-page "MoCo Planning Board Meeting - Upzoning" before that, and that is just since the spring -- plenty about Thrive in general, MoCo "missing middle" and specific sector plans prior). We simply will have to disagree about whether detached single-family home neighborhoods have a reasonable place in a largely suburban district, where the urban areas, themselves, are not the primary focal locations in the region. But that, too, is part of a false choice, isn't it? Not just the prior "duplexes looking like really nice brick homes like one might see along 16th Street in DC" dog & pony that served as the presentation to communities over the prior years. That, unsurprisingly, given the political elements in play, was the entree to the sudden "well, you're either for allowing 19-unit apartments with no infrastructure adequacy assurances in the detached SFH neighborhood in which you settled or you're a backwards, racist, must-be-excessively-wealthy-yourself-despite-middle-of-the-road-income-areas-being-more-likely-to-be-affected, anti-change meany, whose interests and concerns we should ignore because other people want homes there and we won't consider alternatives." 
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Anonymous
| I'm sorry, I'm not interested in reading posts about this topic that are that long. |
Anonymous
LMAO. |
Anonymous
Yes. I read somewhere that the continued introduction of a net need population will do that at some point. A diminished quality of life can lead to an erosion of the tax base. |
Anonymous
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The YImBY borg is learning, probably taking notes from these threads. soon it may become self aware.
All the same turd polish they used with Thrive. https://montgomeryplanning.org/blog-design/2024/08/faq-curious-about-our-proposal-to-relax-single-family-zoning-weve-got-answers/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2BUW8_qM455xpguZ95QhxL1Wms0XQyN43Sb7RdfCImjh2JtyYUFQARsvE_aem_xKtETubtMdUUusfjAQN-UQ Though, the AI training needs work. “might be” “we expect” “our calculations” Alluding to the adjustment of school boundaries, “while some individual schools are overcrowded, the system countywide is not” Reduced parking requirements within a MILE of Metro, Purple Line, and Marc, and within 500 feet in either direction of a “growth corridor” – they think that they are attracting people without cars. lol, right. Their gentrification arguments are too silly to even address. |
Anonymous
| In this thread: Angry NIMBYs doing lots of hand-wringing. You love to see it! |
Anonymous
This is DJT level projection. The YImBYs are the kings of dramatic hand-wringing and pearl clutching. The sniveling about zoning is so nauseating that you want to look away. |
Anonymous
I do not love to see it. I would prefer for people to not be NIMBYs. |
Anonymous
Sniveling? Hmm, an entire generation is unable to afford housing because of NIMBYs. I think it's warranted, selfish guy. |
Anonymous
Weird how this one poster always spells it "Yes In my Back Yard". A personal idiosyncrasy of theirs, I suppose. |
Anonymous
At your next get together you should tell your fellow cult members that if they are going to try to be edgy and hip and insulting that they should expect that someone might insult them back. Talk about dishing it out and not being able to take it. Which generation? Millennial? Yes, slightly behind and growing. Z? Doing fine for the age, though half of them are still collecting Pokémon cards. https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/homeownership-by-generation https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-gen-z-homeowners-millennials-170840693.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/21/gen-z-ahead-of-millennials-and-their-parents-in-owning-their-own-homes/ https://fortune.com/2024/01/17/redfin-baby-boomers-gen-z-housing-market-homeownership/ |
Anonymous
That's an odd thing to say about group of people born between the mid-to-late 1990s and the early 2010s. |