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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are we calling if it's been vetoed? The council has always been paid for by developers, and sadly I don't think any calls will change that. I'm very glad we elected Elrich to constrain this madness.[/quote]

How many Elrich vetos of development-related bills has the developer-friendly Council failed to override?

That's the reason to call/write the Councilmembers.  Hold their feet to the fire, especially as many of them have aspirations for higher office, including the County Executive position now that the county electorate was hoodwinked into the ballot measure approving term limits so that Elrich can't run again.  Just like they were hoodwinked into adding 2 at-large seats, and all the salary/staff/office expense that goes with that, for the prior election -- as though that was going to result in anything other than further packing the Council with majority-of-the-majority/total-insider members of the single party running the hegemony that is MoCo.

Too bad that Elrich won't have a say in the ZTAs that largely make up Friedson's and Fani-González's new multi-bill approach to kicking off the Attainable Housing Strategies.  Those, apparently, aren't subject to veto, and the Council will avoid any repeat of the listening sessions this past fall,  holding the minimum public hearings before voting them through, claiming that they have dealt with the AHS objections, despite the bills having many of the same flaws that were so roundly criticized -- and in some respects increase those objectionable flaws.  At least with a veto there could be the additional public scrutiny before the Council goes ahead with it, though even that would not allow the electorate a say before the laws go into effect.[/quote]

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