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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You voted for the County Executive and County Council. They appointed the Planning Board. The Planning Board and the County Council voted on Thrive. That's how it works in a representative democracy.

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The executive does not appoint the planning board or make development decisions. If you think there’s too little or too much development,, take it up with the council.

It’s funny to see the YIMBYs rise up in defense of planning. The whole agency and system were designed to perpetuate segregation. I don’t think the people who work there now are racists but it’s pretty hard to do something different when the system is set up to perpetuate segregation. [/quote]
What’s ironic is that if Hans Riemer won, these same YIMBYs would be saying the exact opposite.

The reality is that the MNCPPC was created to be unaccountable to serve narrow interests (initially segregation as you point out and current as a jobs program for land use lawyers and development consultants) and as a result it had spent its entire history perpetuating scandal after scandal. If there is anyone to blame for the sorry state of the MoCo economy, the buck stops at the MNCPPC.

Reform is necessary and the YIMBYs need to accept that Mark Elrich will be the one in charge when that reform happens. Win am election and they can be the ones in charge. [/quote]

Thank you!  If it's the sound plan they make it out to be, a little bit of adult supervision can't hurt.  What's are they hiding?  I'd invite anyone to take a look at their "YIMBY" Facebook groups...nothing could more bolster my argument than reading theirs firsthand.

In the meantime, I'll remain skeptical that the ability to build three rental units next door to me is an improvement to my neighborhood.  Seems that their big plan is to make affordable housing by regressing property values to the mean.  Triple the people, triple the cars, triple the school children, none of the sense of community that the previous SFH owners had.[/quote]

Don't worry, you'll be able to sell your property at a higher price to someone who plans to build a triplex on it, and it will be a win-win for everybody.[/quote]
How does everyone getting rich off real estate create more “attainable” housing? If the land price goes up then the price of a unit in the tri-plex goes up and it defeats everything that people say the Thrive is supposed to do. Hmmmmm.[/quote]

Because 3 units are three times as many housing units as 1 unit.[/quote]
Highly acclaimed research on TOD upzoning finds that it only helps to enrich incumbent property owners while leading to higher housing prices and no significant impact on housing supply. So no, it actually does not in fact produce more housing. It just makes the existing housing more expensive.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-31/zoning-reform-isn-t-a-silver-bullet-for-u-s-housing[/quote]

Good news for you, then there is no reason for you to oppose the zoning changes.[/quote]

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