Montgomery County zoning: Council wants to change zoning throughout the county to multi-family

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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+1 Once DC #2 is done with college we are out of MC. There is no reason to continue to pay the high taxes of MoCo and Maryland with the types of policies the Council is looking at as well the school board. The biggest indicator that MoCo is making poor decisions is the lack of a growing business climate. Just walk around the Woodmont Triangle and notice all the empty storefronts and for lease signs. Look at all the empty office space in the County. Raising rates to cover for less and less people is a downward spiral which there is no recovery.

Yup. That's why rents are so high and Marriott is moving there.

Wait, what?

Marriott is not moving to MC; it is staying there, with huge Maryland/MC tax incentives. It will not be paying the otherwise excessive taxes in MC.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/digger/wp/2016/10/18/marriott-to-move-headquarters-to-downtown-bethesda/?noredirect=on

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.foxnews.com/politics/affluent-liberals-in-washington-dc-suburb-resort-to-racial-and-economic-stereotypes-to-protest-affordable-housing-proposal

This is making national news. Here they point out the irony of a solidly blue district being against affordable housing in their neighborhoods...

Who cares what anybody at Faux News has to say? As for MoCo, it's solidly blue but lots of moderates.

No, no it isn't. You are delusional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

+1 Once DC #2 is done with college we are out of MC. There is no reason to continue to pay the high taxes of MoCo and Maryland with the types of policies the Council is looking at as well the school board. The biggest indicator that MoCo is making poor decisions is the lack of a growing business climate. Just walk around the Woodmont Triangle and notice all the empty storefronts and for lease signs. Look at all the empty office space in the County. Raising rates to cover for less and less people is a downward spiral which there is no recovery.

Yup. That's why rents are so high and Marriott is moving there.

Wait, what?

Marriott is not moving to MC; it is staying there, with huge Maryland/MC tax incentives. It will not be paying the otherwise excessive taxes in MC.

Marriott is moving from a suburban "office park" to downtown Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Some of these SFH neighborhoods in Wheaton are so crammed with multiple families per house, and the resulting five or six cars per house, that you can barely drive up the street. Now it will be even worse. Pretty soon we'll have cars parked on the front yards. How lovely.

Also, these neighborhoods were formerly for families, and these backyard shacks will be rented out to single men unable to afford a normal apartment. Not a way to improve the appeal of the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these SFH neighborhoods in Wheaton are so crammed with multiple families per house, and the resulting five or six cars per house, that you can barely drive up the street. Now it will be even worse. Pretty soon we'll have cars parked on the front yards. How lovely.

Also, these neighborhoods were formerly for families, and these backyard shacks will be rented out to single men unable to afford a normal apartment. Not a way to improve the appeal of the neighborhood.

I00% agree.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that lower and Eastern MoCo have a large illegal immigrant population, made up of uneducated people unable to afford to rent regular apartments. Instead of MoCo trying to stop the influx, they are allowing middle-class neighborhoods to be destroyed so that poor illegals can live here. This is another example of putting the interests of illegal immigrants ahead of regular Americans.

I doubt that these shanties will go up in the backyards of affluent Potomac and Bethesda neighborhoods. Wheaton-Glenmont, on the other hand, already looks like Central America, with trash strewn all over the Glenmont strip mall, since poor illegal immigrants have settled into the nearby low-rent apartments (doubling up as needed). Now they will fan out to the nearby SFH neighborhoods, living in backyard shanties. Many will be single, unattached males in their 20s. This is horrible news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of these SFH neighborhoods in Wheaton are so crammed with multiple families per house, and the resulting five or six cars per house, that you can barely drive up the street. Now it will be even worse. Pretty soon we'll have cars parked on the front yards. How lovely.

Also, these neighborhoods were formerly for families, and these backyard shacks will be rented out to single men unable to afford a normal apartment. Not a way to improve the appeal of the neighborhood.

You don't have to be a dog to hear those whistles you're whistling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these SFH neighborhoods in Wheaton are so crammed with multiple families per house, and the resulting five or six cars per house, that you can barely drive up the street. Now it will be even worse. Pretty soon we'll have cars parked on the front yards. How lovely.

Also, these neighborhoods were formerly for families, and these backyard shacks will be rented out to single men unable to afford a normal apartment. Not a way to improve the appeal of the neighborhood.

You don't have to be a dog to hear those whistles you're whistling.

And right on cue.....the racism lie again.

Taking a nice family neighborhood of single family houses and turning it into a low-income neighborhood of backyard shanties rented by poor men unable to even rent a normal apartment is destroying the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these SFH neighborhoods in Wheaton are so crammed with multiple families per house, and the resulting five or six cars per house, that you can barely drive up the street. Now it will be even worse. Pretty soon we'll have cars parked on the front yards. How lovely.

Also, these neighborhoods were formerly for families, and these backyard shacks will be rented out to single men unable to afford a normal apartment. Not a way to improve the appeal of the neighborhood.

You don't have to be a dog to hear those whistles you're whistling.

And right on cue.....the racism lie again.

Taking a nice family neighborhood of single family houses and turning it into a low-income neighborhood of backyard shanties rented by poor men unable to even rent a normal apartment is destroying the neighborhood.

The people who live there probably disagree with you.

By the way, it's not just racism, it's also classism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is that lower and Eastern MoCo have a large illegal immigrant population, made up of uneducated people unable to afford to rent regular apartments. Instead of MoCo trying to stop the influx, they are allowing middle-class neighborhoods to be destroyed so that poor illegals can live here. This is another example of putting the interests of illegal immigrants ahead of regular Americans.

I doubt that these shanties will go up in the backyards of affluent Potomac and Bethesda neighborhoods. Wheaton-Glenmont, on the other hand, already looks like Central America, with trash strewn all over the Glenmont strip mall, since poor illegal immigrants have settled into the nearby low-rent apartments (doubling up as needed). Now they will fan out to the nearby SFH neighborhoods, living in backyard shanties. Many will be single, unattached males in their 20s. This is horrible news.

This is exactly what's happening in my neighborhood. Used to be a solidly middle class neighborhood, and now we're half single family homes, and half single family homes with multiple families living there illegally.

The cars parked on the street is insane. It is less than ideal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these SFH neighborhoods in Wheaton are so crammed with multiple families per house, and the resulting five or six cars per house, that you can barely drive up the street. Now it will be even worse. Pretty soon we'll have cars parked on the front yards. How lovely.

Also, these neighborhoods were formerly for families, and these backyard shacks will be rented out to single men unable to afford a normal apartment. Not a way to improve the appeal of the neighborhood.

You don't have to be a dog to hear those whistles you're whistling.

And right on cue.....the racism lie again.

Taking a nice family neighborhood of single family houses and turning it into a low-income neighborhood of backyard shanties rented by poor men unable to even rent a normal apartment is destroying the neighborhood.

The people who live there probably disagree with you.

By the way, it's not just racism, it's also classism.

Says the hypocritical poster who doesn’t live anywhere near Wheaton and sends her kids to private school.

[Anonymous]

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Says the hypocritical poster who doesn’t live anywhere near Wheaton and sends her kids to private school.

Things you don't know about the PP:

1. Where the PP lives
2. The PP's gender
3. Whether the PP has children
4. Whether the PP's children (if any) are school-age
5. Where the PP's school-aged children (if any) go to school.

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog - right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of these SFH neighborhoods in Wheaton are so crammed with multiple families per house, and the resulting five or six cars per house, that you can barely drive up the street. Now it will be even worse. Pretty soon we'll have cars parked on the front yards. How lovely.

Also, these neighborhoods were formerly for families, and these backyard shacks will be rented out to single men unable to afford a normal apartment. Not a way to improve the appeal of the neighborhood.

You don't have to be a dog to hear those whistles you're whistling.

And right on cue.....the racism lie again.

Taking a nice family neighborhood of single family houses and turning it into a low-income neighborhood of backyard shanties rented by poor men unable to even rent a normal apartment is destroying the neighborhood.

The people who live there probably disagree with you.

By the way, it's not just racism, it's also classism.

By the way, have you seen the posters who DO live in these proposed shanty neighborhoods? They are objecting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem is that lower and Eastern MoCo have a large illegal immigrant population, made up of uneducated people unable to afford to rent regular apartments. Instead of MoCo trying to stop the influx, they are allowing middle-class neighborhoods to be destroyed so that poor illegals can live here. This is another example of putting the interests of illegal immigrants ahead of regular Americans.

I doubt that these shanties will go up in the backyards of affluent Potomac and Bethesda neighborhoods. Wheaton-Glenmont, on the other hand, already looks like Central America, with trash strewn all over the Glenmont strip mall, since poor illegal immigrants have settled into the nearby low-rent apartments (doubling up as needed). Now they will fan out to the nearby SFH neighborhoods, living in backyard shanties. Many will be single, unattached males in their 20s. This is horrible news.

This is exactly what's happening in my neighborhood. Used to be a solidly middle class neighborhood, and now we're half single family homes, and half single family homes with multiple families living there illegally.

The cars parked on the street is insane. It is less than ideal.

Same with my aunt and uncle's neighborhood. It was a nice middle class neighborhood when they moved in 30 years ago with young children. Now half the neighborhood is made up of multiple families crammed into single homes. There was even a murder in one of them, and the police found 15 illegal immigrants living there! I remember visiting my cousins, and it was a really nice neighborhood - back then.

And what you say about the cars in the street is so true. Each house has off-street parking for at least two cars, usually three, and you used to bbe able to drive up the street. Now it's wall-to-wall parked cars on both sides of the street, so that if a car is approaching you, one of you will have to back way down the street to find a place to pull out of the way. Then that car passes, and it happens again. I've had to back the car up, significantly, three times just to drive up one street. Imagine how untenable it will be when the population in these neighborhoods doubles with backyard rentals.

[Anonymous]

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By the way, have you seen the posters who DO live in these proposed shanty neighborhoods? They are objecting.

Fortunately, nobody is proposing "shanty neighborhoods."