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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People, it would help to get the word out by posting elsewhere as well - Reddit’s Bethesda forum is active, as is MoCo, though it slants to younger new arrivals. It’s ironic to hear the new condo  and apartment dwellers complain about transformer blows. Also use your neighborhood listservs and show up to community meetings. [/quote]

Part of the problem is that every time we wrap our heads around one scheme they replace it with a new scheme.  This seems like a deliberate effort to “flood the zone” as they are saying these days.

So we had Thrive to “plan the plan.”

Now there is the AHS, the corridor plans, and now Moore Housing? For some reason they all involve the same things and there is no accounting for overlap.

They’ve already passed parking requirement changes completely separate from these, and much is predicated on the BRT being built (you know, the bus), and many of those transportation changes will require state approval which might take YEARS.[/quote]

Though they each result in undercutting of neighborhoods, don't confuse

More Housing N.O.W. (New Options for Workers) / ZTA 25-02, ZTA 25-03, SRA 25-01 & Expedited Bill 2-25 -- the set of bills Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez have put out to push forward with as much of the AHS as they think they can get away with via divide-and-conquer for now, only intending to push incrementally for the rest via the same

with

HB 503 / SB 430 -- Gov. Moore's 2025 requested housing bill that would let developers build housing of any type pretty much anywhere in MoCo unless Montgomery Planning puts up a rigorous & vigorous legal defense, along rather limited lines, for each development request.

Don't confuse either of those with the several bills & laws recently passed to spur residential development, including Gov. Moore's housing request from last year at this time that already adds significant additional density, but which Montgomery Planning and the County Council continue to drag their feet on reviewing with respect to AHS/other initiatives because they know the full extent of combined impacts would go over like a lead baloon when 
trying to promote their own agenda.[/quote]

You missed the most important part of More Housing NOW: A 25-year property tax abatement for certain new rental developments (only for rentals). It’s a giveaway for landlords at a time when the council is about to take up the second massive property tax increase for everyone else in three years. 
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