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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have tons of affordable housing. It's called PG County. [/quote]

“Ward 9” is not the “high opportunity area” that the mayor’s developer cronies have in mind for windfall profits through upzoning and FLUM amendments.  That’s why they set their sights on Ward 3 and got the mayor to outsource the comprehensive plan amendment process to themselves and their lawyers.[/quote]

It's great when we get sprawl development in "Ward 9" - we get more traffic, more air pollution, more parking demand in our neighborhoods, less open space and the people living there spend much of their time stuck in traffic and not being productive.

But you have a chip on your shoulder because people building housing make money - no doubt the person who built your home did so for charity?[/quote]

Making money is fine.  Making windfall profits because you have the mayor in your pocket and can force a huge regulatory change is not - particularly when the windfall to favored friends comes [b]at the expense of green space, historic preservation, sunlight, pedestrian scale, quality of residential life and neighborhood character[/b].[/quote]

While the neighborhood character and quality of residential life arguments are subjective (though I'd love to hear the actual arguments) the others are not.

Again please provide specific examples where green space has been lost so developers can profit or where historic preservation has been trampled over or where the pedestrian scale (whatever the hell that even means) have been impacted by commercial development.

You can keep trotting out these absurd arguments but every now and then you need to provide some actual examples or even make an attempted argument to explain how or why you think all of these negative things have been happening.[/quote]

OP can not propose to allow 12 or 13 story buildings in an area of one and twostory buildings which are historically protected and call that “compatible”.  Such discordance would basically gut an historic district.  Perhaps that is their objective.[/quote]

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