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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don’t get why anyone would blindly support new developments without the infrastructure (like schools) to support it.  Makes zero sense to me.[/quote]

Montgomery County has NEVER built the schools before building the housing. Never.[/quote]

Nobody is saying that Montgomery County needs to build the schools before the housing.  However, it is reasonable to expect developers to set aside money or to designate a plot of land that can be used for future schools.

That is not happening.  [/quote]

Yes it is.

"Development Impact Taxes are, set by the Montgomery County Council, assessed on new residential and commercial buildings and additions to commercial buildings in the county to fund, in part, the improvements necessary to increase the transportation or[b] public-school systems capacity[/b], thereby allowing development to proceed."
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DPS/fees/Taxes.html
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What developers are paying is a fraction of what costs to support the students that new development generates. The county loses money on every housing unit it adds once you account for school costs. That’s a fact. [/quote]

So two things:
1.  The PP I was responding to said that developers are not required to set aside money to address schools.  They are.  That was false.  You are now making a different point.
2.  I genuinely and sincerely am interested in seeing anything that supports your "fact" that adding housing loses money for the county.  And as you say not just theoretically or some, but "every unit" so indesputably true that "it is fact."[/quote]

To your second point, look at the current impact fees and the average per seat cost of school construction. The impact fees are less than the average per seat cost of school construction. The county just lowered the impact fees again last year because school construction costs spiked and they didn’t want to burden developers with the cost increase. That impact fee cut last year was on top of the impact fee cut that they did three years ago. [/quote]

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