Listening Sessions - Montgomery County Attainable Housing

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Pretty notable that you didn’t disagree agree with the sentiment, only the language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Awww, look at the cute little angry renter. He's a little angry man that can't stand the fact he has to rent while he wants to own a home and can't afford it. Because he can't afford it he has to ruin what other have and worked towards.

At the rate idiots like you are driving MoCo into the ground, it makes entire sense to take our $1.1M HHI and move up to Howard or AA counties. Have fun trying to replace the sky high taxes we pay to the county with a whole bunch of imported poverty. People with means and who pay the most taxes will flee. They always do. An extra 20 minute commute is NBD. Better that than avoid MoCo poverty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Awww, look at the cute little angry renter. He's a little angry man that can't stand the fact he has to rent while he wants to own a home and can't afford it. Because he can't afford it he has to ruin what other have and worked towards.

At the rate idiots like you are driving MoCo into the ground, it makes entire sense to take our $1.1M HHI and move up to Howard or AA counties. Have fun trying to replace the sky high taxes we pay to the county with a whole bunch of imported poverty. People with means and who pay the most taxes will flee. They always do. An extra 20 minute commute is NBD. Better that than avoid MoCo poverty.

Yeah, you're weird.

I'm the poster you're responding to. I'm not a man, I'm not an angry, and I'm not a renter. I'm not even especially little.

If you want to take your $1.1 million household income and move to Howard or Anne Arundel counties, then you should do that. Nobody is stopping you, nor should anybody be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Awww, look at the cute little angry renter. He's a little angry man that can't stand the fact he has to rent while he wants to own a home and can't afford it. Because he can't afford it he has to ruin what other have and worked towards.

At the rate idiots like you are driving MoCo into the ground, it makes entire sense to take our $1.1M HHI and move up to Howard or AA counties. Have fun trying to replace the sky high taxes we pay to the county with a whole bunch of imported poverty. People with means and who pay the most taxes will flee. They always do. An extra 20 minute commute is NBD. Better that than avoid MoCo poverty.

Yeah, you're weird.

I'm the poster you're responding to. I'm not a man, I'm not an angry, and I'm not a renter. I'm not even especially little.

If you want to take your $1.1 million household income and move to Howard or Anne Arundel counties, then you should do that. Nobody is stopping you, nor should anybody be.

You know how much I pay in total taxes to MoCo every year? It has six digits. The only weirdo here is you who wants to drive out six figure taxpayers and replace them with poverty who’ll pay $0 in taxes based on their incomes. How will you maintain the schools, police, and all of the other progressive programs when everyone paying huge amounts of taxes simply leaves? Congrats, you’re now turned into Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Awww, look at the cute little angry renter. He's a little angry man that can't stand the fact he has to rent while he wants to own a home and can't afford it. Because he can't afford it he has to ruin what other have and worked towards.

At the rate idiots like you are driving MoCo into the ground, it makes entire sense to take our $1.1M HHI and move up to Howard or AA counties. Have fun trying to replace the sky high taxes we pay to the county with a whole bunch of imported poverty. People with means and who pay the most taxes will flee. They always do. An extra 20 minute commute is NBD. Better that than avoid MoCo poverty.

Yeah, you're weird.

I'm the poster you're responding to. I'm not a man, I'm not an angry, and I'm not a renter. I'm not even especially little.

If you want to take your $1.1 million household income and move to Howard or Anne Arundel counties, then you should do that. Nobody is stopping you, nor should anybody be.

You know how much I pay in total taxes to MoCo every year? It has six digits. The only weirdo here is you who wants to drive out six figure taxpayers and replace them with poverty who’ll pay $0 in taxes based on their incomes. How will you maintain the schools, police, and all of the other progressive programs when everyone paying huge amounts of taxes simply leaves? Congrats, you’re now turned into Baltimore.

Imagine believing that you're doing your fellow residents a favor by gracing them with your residence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Awww, look at the cute little angry renter. He's a little angry man that can't stand the fact he has to rent while he wants to own a home and can't afford it. Because he can't afford it he has to ruin what other have and worked towards.

At the rate idiots like you are driving MoCo into the ground, it makes entire sense to take our $1.1M HHI and move up to Howard or AA counties. Have fun trying to replace the sky high taxes we pay to the county with a whole bunch of imported poverty. People with means and who pay the most taxes will flee. They always do. An extra 20 minute commute is NBD. Better that than avoid MoCo poverty.

Yeah, you're weird.

I'm the poster you're responding to. I'm not a man, I'm not an angry, and I'm not a renter. I'm not even especially little.

If you want to take your $1.1 million household income and move to Howard or Anne Arundel counties, then you should do that. Nobody is stopping you, nor should anybody be.

You know how much I pay in total taxes to MoCo every year? It has six digits. The only weirdo here is you who wants to drive out six figure taxpayers and replace them with poverty who’ll pay $0 in taxes based on their incomes. How will you maintain the schools, police, and all of the other progressive programs when everyone paying huge amounts of taxes simply leaves? Congrats, you’re now turned into Baltimore.

Imagine believing that you're doing your fellow residents a favor by gracing them with your residence.

Who do you think funds those schools and the police?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Aren't you idiots the developers pushing this? I doubt they care either way. They'll be enjoying their money in some heavily coded community in the Hamptons or Orange County.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP thank you for the info. I’m on county council distribution lists but I did not get this notice.

One comment I will make is that they need to reduce my property taxes for bringing us zoning that will lower my property value tremendously.

Don’t worry if that happens (and it probably will cause your valuation to increase) then they’ll raise the rate so that you still pay more. If your valuation goes up, they’ll keep the rate the same or raise it less.

WTH are you talking about?

An apartment building next door WILL NOT INCREASE MY HOME'S VALUE. They'll keep the rate the same or raise it less? In what MoCo World do you live? They will never keep it the same. They will destroy the quality of life in MoCo and raise my property value until I say screw it and move to another state. They view that as winning because they are only concerned about their own careers which involve getting cash donations from developers and realtors.

You must not be tracking the price of houses in East Bethesda near Wisconsin Avenue very closely. When more people move in you get more stores and transit within walking distance because there are suddenly more customers for these things.

You are just talking to hear yourself talk. Building apt buildings within the SF neighborhood hasn't started yet. Once you've got a quadplex next door, your house is not as desirable. SFHs with view of apt buildings have lower appraisals. Full stop.

And yet houses in walkable neighborhoods sell for more than houses in non-walkable neighborhoods and usually have multiple offers. Go figure.

Can you show us examples of equivalent houses in equivalent locations, one with only detached SFHs surrounding it and another with a quadriplex or apartment building next to it, where the second house sold for more than the first within a month or two of each other?

No, because they’re currently illegal, but a lot of people can see high-rise apartments from their front or back porches in East Bethesda and their property values are doing just fine. Just using logic, at the very least, your land will appreciate because its development potential will increase, probably at a faster pace than the structure depreciates.

In addition, potential litigants are going to be challenged to show harm resulting from the zoning change because the tight sales market will continue to push sales prices up, especially as interest rates fall. Almost every land use policy that the county has made during the last decade or so has benefited land owners financially, with the exception of the 15 percent ADU requirement, which ironically has helped fuel market rate shortages and price increases. The zoning change will benefit landowners as well, at the expense of people who don’t own land.

Huh. Will it benefit quality of life? As we all become pods in the smart growth Matrix?

It really depends on what you value. If you value walkable communities with jobs and services nearby, then, yes it will benefit quality of life.

Doesn't this currently exist? There is a core, quite a few apt buildings and then duplexes and sfhs. Isn't that a walkable community... That exists? Too bad so few parks .DC has MoCo beat for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Awww, look at the cute little angry renter. He's a little angry man that can't stand the fact he has to rent while he wants to own a home and can't afford it. Because he can't afford it he has to ruin what other have and worked towards.

At the rate idiots like you are driving MoCo into the ground, it makes entire sense to take our $1.1M HHI and move up to Howard or AA counties. Have fun trying to replace the sky high taxes we pay to the county with a whole bunch of imported poverty. People with means and who pay the most taxes will flee. They always do. An extra 20 minute commute is NBD. Better that than avoid MoCo poverty.

Yeah, you're weird.

I'm the poster you're responding to. I'm not a man, I'm not an angry, and I'm not a renter. I'm not even especially little.

If you want to take your $1.1 million household income and move to Howard or Anne Arundel counties, then you should do that. Nobody is stopping you, nor should anybody be.

You know how much I pay in total taxes to MoCo every year? It has six digits. The only weirdo here is you who wants to drive out six figure taxpayers and replace them with poverty who’ll pay $0 in taxes based on their incomes. How will you maintain the schools, police, and all of the other progressive programs when everyone paying huge amounts of taxes simply leaves? Congrats, you’re now turned into Baltimore.

>6 digits

You are paying the State to provide security for you in the form of police, law, and the courts so that others don’t rob you of your entire wealth. You would have been guillotined in past time for being rich and the State would not have been able to protect you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP thank you for the info. I’m on county council distribution lists but I did not get this notice.

One comment I will make is that they need to reduce my property taxes for bringing us zoning that will lower my property value tremendously.

Don’t worry if that happens (and it probably will cause your valuation to increase) then they’ll raise the rate so that you still pay more. If your valuation goes up, they’ll keep the rate the same or raise it less.

WTH are you talking about?

An apartment building next door WILL NOT INCREASE MY HOME'S VALUE. They'll keep the rate the same or raise it less? In what MoCo World do you live? They will never keep it the same. They will destroy the quality of life in MoCo and raise my property value until I say screw it and move to another state. They view that as winning because they are only concerned about their own careers which involve getting cash donations from developers and realtors.

You must not be tracking the price of houses in East Bethesda near Wisconsin Avenue very closely. When more people move in you get more stores and transit within walking distance because there are suddenly more customers for these things.

You are just talking to hear yourself talk. Building apt buildings within the SF neighborhood hasn't started yet. Once you've got a quadplex next door, your house is not as desirable. SFHs with view of apt buildings have lower appraisals. Full stop.

And yet houses in walkable neighborhoods sell for more than houses in non-walkable neighborhoods and usually have multiple offers. Go figure.

Can you show us examples of equivalent houses in equivalent locations, one with only detached SFHs surrounding it and another with a quadriplex or apartment building next to it, where the second house sold for more than the first within a month or two of each other?

No, because they’re currently illegal, but a lot of people can see high-rise apartments from their front or back porches in East Bethesda and their property values are doing just fine. Just using logic, at the very least, your land will appreciate because its development potential will increase, probably at a faster pace than the structure depreciates.

In addition, potential litigants are going to be challenged to show harm resulting from the zoning change because the tight sales market will continue to push sales prices up, especially as interest rates fall. Almost every land use policy that the county has made during the last decade or so has benefited land owners financially, with the exception of the 15 percent ADU requirement, which ironically has helped fuel market rate shortages and price increases. The zoning change will benefit landowners as well, at the expense of people who don’t own land.

Huh. Will it benefit quality of life? As we all become pods in the smart growth Matrix?

It really depends on what you value. If you value walkable communities with jobs and services nearby, then, yes it will benefit quality of life.

Doesn't this currently exist? There is a core, quite a few apt buildings and then duplexes and sfhs. Isn't that a walkable community... That exists? Too bad so few parks .DC has MoCo beat for that.

where is there this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Awww, look at the cute little angry renter. He's a little angry man that can't stand the fact he has to rent while he wants to own a home and can't afford it. Because he can't afford it he has to ruin what other have and worked towards.

At the rate idiots like you are driving MoCo into the ground, it makes entire sense to take our $1.1M HHI and move up to Howard or AA counties. Have fun trying to replace the sky high taxes we pay to the county with a whole bunch of imported poverty. People with means and who pay the most taxes will flee. They always do. An extra 20 minute commute is NBD. Better that than avoid MoCo poverty.

Yeah, you're weird.

I'm the poster you're responding to. I'm not a man, I'm not an angry, and I'm not a renter. I'm not even especially little.

If you want to take your $1.1 million household income and move to Howard or Anne Arundel counties, then you should do that. Nobody is stopping you, nor should anybody be.

You know how much I pay in total taxes to MoCo every year? It has six digits. The only weirdo here is you who wants to drive out six figure taxpayers and replace them with poverty who’ll pay $0 in taxes based on their incomes. How will you maintain the schools, police, and all of the other progressive programs when everyone paying huge amounts of taxes simply leaves? Congrats, you’re now turned into Baltimore.

Imagine believing that you're doing your fellow residents a favor by gracing them with your residence.

Why shouldn't she? I mean, that's the argument from your side, that the county is gracing residents of existing detached sfh communities with extra residents.

Somehow, these will engender lovely walkable nearby commercial spaces, despite there not being new commercial zoned as part of the plan, except where a mixed-use large structure in the area might be approved by more standard zoning change methodologies. And who wouldn't want that next door, anyway?

Meanwhile, the additional opportunity-based next-door construction activity, higher traffic & street parking, increased infrastructure burden, greater school crowding, etc., that this would bring for those current residents surely will be worth having a new mattress store open up a mile down the road to serve those new residents.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, this seems like such a betrayal. I supported and voted for a lot of the folks on the council, and this is what get in return? They turned out to be just your average scummy politicians.

Clearly they don’t care about my vote, and that’s fine, I guess. Just don’t come back to my house with your smarmy fake smiles looking for handouts again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wants to live in SFHs and not crappy apartments or condos.

Apartments and Condos SUCK.

This is the Everyone Wants What I Want And Doesn't Want What I Don't Want rule.

That's why SFH appreciate in value while condos barely break even.

Nomone wants to live in sh!tty apartments and condos that are hot boxes for roach and bed bug infestations. Have fun buying a condo next door to a neighbor who constantly smokes weed 24/7 365 and the vapors penetrate your walls and the hallways. Absolutely miserable existence. The markets speak for itself. SFH are way more valuable.

Your post says a lot about you, but not a lot about housing.

Hahhahaha

You idiots think you'll be transforming the area into a miniaturized version of a concrete jungle like Tokyo, but all you'll end up doing is creating a bunch of favelas like in Rio.

Please go to a listening session and say that. Please. Word-for-word.

Awww, look at the cute little angry renter. He's a little angry man that can't stand the fact he has to rent while he wants to own a home and can't afford it. Because he can't afford it he has to ruin what other have and worked towards.

At the rate idiots like you are driving MoCo into the ground, it makes entire sense to take our $1.1M HHI and move up to Howard or AA counties. Have fun trying to replace the sky high taxes we pay to the county with a whole bunch of imported poverty. People with means and who pay the most taxes will flee. They always do. An extra 20 minute commute is NBD. Better that than avoid MoCo poverty.

Yeah, you're weird.

I'm the poster you're responding to. I'm not a man, I'm not an angry, and I'm not a renter. I'm not even especially little.

If you want to take your $1.1 million household income and move to Howard or Anne Arundel counties, then you should do that. Nobody is stopping you, nor should anybody be.

You know how much I pay in total taxes to MoCo every year? It has six digits. The only weirdo here is you who wants to drive out six figure taxpayers and replace them with poverty who’ll pay $0 in taxes based on their incomes. How will you maintain the schools, police, and all of the other progressive programs when everyone paying huge amounts of taxes simply leaves? Congrats, you’re now turned into Baltimore.

Imagine believing that you're doing your fellow residents a favor by gracing them with your residence.

Why shouldn't she? I mean, that's the argument from your side, that the county is gracing residents of existing detached sfh communities with extra residents.

Somehow, these will engender lovely walkable nearby commercial spaces, despite there not being new commercial zoned as part of the plan, except where a mixed-use large structure in the area might be approved by more standard zoning change methodologies. And who wouldn't want that next door, anyway?

Meanwhile, the additional opportunity-based next-door construction activity, higher traffic & street parking, increased infrastructure burden, greater school crowding, etc., that this would bring for those current residents surely will be worth having a new mattress store open up a mile down the road to serve those new residents.

No, it's not.