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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is your proposed solution? To build more schools, MCPS needs (a) money (in the capital budget) and (b) a place to put them. Where should the money to come from? Where should the schools go? And what will happen when enrollment invariably declines again?

And yes, there keeps being more development. (Which MCPS has no say over, just as the Montgomery County Council and the Montgomery County Planning Board have no say over the schools.) That's because people want to move to where the development is. Without this development, closer-in housing will stay way-out-of-reach expensive, which forces non-affluent people to live further out, with longer and more energy-consuming commutes.

But keep in mind also that in most cases, it's not the new development that's causing the rise in enrollment. (Clarksburg is a notable exception.) It's people who no longer have school-aged children selling their [i]existing[/i] residences to people who do have school-aged children. The most effective way to control enrollment in a given school zone would be to forbid people from selling their existing residences to people who have, or plan to have, children to send to school. But of course we can't do that![/quote]
Stellar circular logic here Einstein and is totally bereft of reality.

[b]You are clearly a developer shill [/b]and one of the reasons I will be happy to leave this county. People say that DC is corrupt, I say that MoCo is equally so, it's just that no one is paying attention and it doesn't get the same scrutiny. Developers own this government. And the corruption in Annapolis is even worse.

Cannot wait to move.[/quote]

Every time somebody, on the Internet, in the context of Montgomery County, says that supply and demand applies to housing prices just as it applies to the prices of everything else, somebody else accuses that person of being a developer shill. Why?

But if you don't like Montgomery County, then I encourage you to leave. Less demand for/more supply of housing will make housing prices more affordable.:-)[/quote]

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