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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in the city of Rockville and not “Rockville”.  Taxes are higher but I like what we get.  The city gets to decide a lot of things that the county council decides elsewhere.  Like they voted to allow building at Twinbrook beyond the 120% school capacity at WJ.  I’m 100% behind that decision.[/quote]

So, your city decided it wanted to increase its real estate tax base, and overcrowded county schools be damned, huh?

Yeah, see.... that's a compelling argument for NOT incorporating. [/quote]

I like what they did.  That area on Rockville Pike needs redevelopment.  Incorporation allows the city to improve itself and look after its citizens.  If they had those stupid ridiculous capacity rules in the past, King Farm and Fallsgrove would never have been built.  The city school capacity rules are backwards.  You don’t stop building when schools are full, you build more schools.

Oh and hey, it’s not just the city of Rockville, you know that the county council did the exact same thing right?  Except they did it for affordable housing.  Good luck getting more property tax out of that.  I prefer the city of Rockville approach.  The whole MPDU program should be cancelled by the way.  It just drives up the prices for all the other units in buildings since they have to subsidize the cheap units.  It looks like the county council wants all MPDU’s (or senior housing).  Read the link, it’s pathetic.  10 or fewer school children generated OR low income housing are the exceptions for the county.  I’ll take the city rules any day.  They seem far more concerned with good governance.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/development/county-council-approves-amendment-to-moratorium-policy/[/quote]

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