DC area needs more housing. PG County capping permits.
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Anonymous
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If approved, it would cap the number of new building permits that could be issued in 2024 at 2,800 dwelling units total. But 2,100 of them would have to be inside the Beltway, or within a mile of Interstates 95 and 495.
https://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2023/10/the-dc-area-needs-more-housing-so-why-might-prince-georges-co-cap-new-permits-next-year/?fbclid=IwAR3__mSS9FS5Yfj3Cpp00sMKnStVX8-UtsIvA9tEaVmFpBkmjfYcYH9yp0I_aem_AXGBZFIy3SfnYOHty3lIsPDFPHMRGUBV8OqBaxg6A0BucoizXUZalu-9Fy9Fuy2UNss |
Anonymous
| DC area needs to encourage "gentrification" so people who don't need to live here, can move to low cost of living area for better lifestyle and people who do need to be here due to work, can find affordable housing here. Nonsensical stubbornness hurts both groups AND leads to poverty leading to increased crime. |
Anonymous
| As someone who lives in PG, great! Spread/sprawl needs to stop. Rt 3 and 301 are awful most of the time thanks to new developments and the roads are not built to handle the influx. |
Anonymous
| Just buy an old house and fix it up. Why do you expect other people to do the work for you. |
Anonymous
| While the region needs more housing, what has happened in Charles County is hideous. Maryland needs to implement transit-oriented development focused on keeping the green parts of the state green. |
Anonymous
man isn't that the truth. awful. |
Anonymous
That ship has sadly sailed. |
Anonymous
We have. Developers choose to build in faraway places because land is cheaper. It’s always been the case in this area. For decades, developers have leapt over undeveloped land near transit because they could get a better return building further out, even though sales prices are lower. The only way to stop this is regulation. 2,800 permits seems ridiculously low but if you don’t prohibit sprawl you’re going to get sprawl, which absolutely kills local governments’ budgets. Prince George’s should have done the cap outside the beltway but had no cap inside the beltway. |
Anonymous
| How would it be legal to “prohibit” sprawl? |
Anonymous
MoCo has the agricultural reserve green belt, but that is under attack from developers and their "affordable housing" activist allies. |
Anonymous
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PG capping housing?
Seems to me the best plan would be to send all of the obnoxious New Urbanism and GGWash shamers who shout "nimby" at everyone nonstop over to PG county and get them out of our hair here in DC. |
Anonymous
What’s funny is the “affordable housing” activists also are attacking the requirements to provide … “affordable housing.” |
Anonymous
Because the Supreme Court said it is. |
Anonymous
Utterly pathetic. Ward 6 where I live has had residences for 40,000 built and/or put into the pipeline to be built over the span of just 10 years. It grew so much and so fast compared to the other wards that they had to change the ward boundaries. And, they did it in Ward 6 with far less land to work with than PG has. Yet PG thinks they have too much going on with a paltry 2800? 40,000 is like the entire population of Maryland. |
Anonymous
Send Payton Chung and the rest of those weirdos to PG to yell at PG about densifying. We have enough of that already here in Ward 6. |