MoCo “Attainable Housing” plan and property values

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is awful.
And truly, a lot of us are betting on our homes to be where we retire and it’s value to allow us to sustain a decent standard of living at old age if we sell, transfer to children, etc.
None of this walkability stuff is true, it’s an imposition.
And we can already feel the results of these measures. In two years, our beloved elementary school of Westbrook has gone from a ranking of 9 to 7 as they turned it into a Title 1 school. There has been incidents of Anti Semitism, alcohol in a 4th grade bathroom, increased behavior issues. This is overwhelming and there is no place or good reason to disrupt perfectly fine neighborhoods.

Did you just start the thread in the MCPS forum too?

I am not the person you are asking, but I am the one who bumped it. That is an old thread. I searched for what happened out of curiosity and couldn't find much info, I bumped the only thread that I found on the topic.

[Anonymous]

If you live in a SFA in a nice neighborhood community w/ with a strong HOA, and other SFAs in the area start to get converted to duplexes, would your house value go up due to decreased supply (of actually desirable housing)? Has this played out anywhere else in the country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you live in a SFA in a nice neighborhood community w/ with a strong HOA, and other SFAs in the area start to get converted to duplexes, would your house value go up due to decreased supply (of actually desirable housing)? Has this played out anywhere else in the country?

Duplex without HOA >>>> SFH with HOA

Not much would change

[Anonymous]

Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

What do you find troubling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

Call me crazy but I like property rights and being able to use my property as I please. Don’t be a communist by collectivizing my land and restricting what I can do with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

What do you find troubling?

I also listened in.
If there was a focus on converting commercial to multifamily homes, townhomes communities along River Road, this is ok.
But there is a disruption in established single family neighborhoods with mention of:
- Eliminating set backs and parking rules, in neighborhoods that already lack driveways
- Determining of lots to be converted to multifamily units
- Incentives for conversion of single family homes to multifamily units

I personally find this negative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

What do you find troubling?

I also listened in.
If there was a focus on converting commercial to multifamily homes, townhomes communities along River Road, this is ok.
But there is a disruption in established single family neighborhoods with mention of:
- Eliminating set backs and parking rules, in neighborhoods that already lack driveways
- Determining of lots to be converted to multifamily units
- Incentives for conversion of single family homes to multifamily units

I personally find this negative

OK, you got yours. I get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

Call me crazy but I like property rights and being able to use my property as I please. Don’t be a communist by collectivizing my land and restricting what I can do with it.

That’s far fetched.
But wanting to dilute property values and impact the lifestyle of established residential neighborhoods to create this buffet of housing in the name of “attainability” is the epitome of slashing freedom of current home owners. This is where collectivizing land is happening. It is a failed playbook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

What do you find troubling?

I also listened in.
If there was a focus on converting commercial to multifamily homes, townhomes communities along River Road, this is ok.
But there is a disruption in established single family neighborhoods with mention of:
- Eliminating set backs and parking rules, in neighborhoods that already lack driveways
- Determining of lots to be converted to multifamily units
- Incentives for conversion of single family homes to multifamily units

I personally find this negative

OK, you got yours. I get it.

Beware The Questioner. Asks questions, sometimes claiming an "earnest interest," but does so only to draw out others' reasoning so as to attack it with hyperbole/strawman arguments, avoiding any true discussion of points made and never putting their own position up for citical analysis.

Best not to engage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

Call me crazy but I like property rights and being able to use my property as I please. Don’t be a communist by collectivizing my land and restricting what I can do with it.

That’s far fetched.
But wanting to dilute property values and impact the lifestyle of established residential neighborhoods to create this buffet of housing in the name of “attainability” is the epitome of slashing freedom of current home owners. This is where collectivizing land is happening. It is a failed playbook.

>dilute property values

You’re treating housing as an investment when people can’t afford shelter. This is categorically bad. Stop limiting what others can do with their property. You can choose to buy your neighbors’ houses and not develop them into townhouses. You can still do that under no zoning!

[Anonymous]

Ah, but it is an investment- and the American Dream

People CAN afford shelter. Just not Bethesda housing. This is not about shelter.

Also- This is, after all, a Real Estate forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

I don't see it here and can't find it on the Planning Board page. Any more help in pointing us to the right direction? Thank you for the help!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

I don't see it here and can't find it on the Planning Board page. Any more help in pointing us to the right direction? Thank you for the help!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Gxh1ezQyOI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listening in to the Council session now. This is extremely troubling.
The session will be saved if you cannot view live:
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/ondemand/index.html

What do you find troubling?

I also listened in.
If there was a focus on converting commercial to multifamily homes, townhomes communities along River Road, this is ok.
But there is a disruption in established single family neighborhoods with mention of:
- Eliminating set backs and parking rules, in neighborhoods that already lack driveways
- Determining of lots to be converted to multifamily units
- Incentives for conversion of single family homes to multifamily units

I personally find this negative

OK, you got yours. I get it.

Beware The Questioner. Asks questions, sometimes claiming an "earnest interest," but does so only to draw out others' reasoning so as to attack it with hyperbole/strawman arguments, avoiding any true discussion of points made and never putting their own position up for citical analysis.

Best not to engage.

huh?