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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elrich now up by 80 votes. Looks like I'll be voting for Nancy Floreen...[/quote]

Dear lord no.  Might as well hire a developer to take over as county executive.  That’s the same as voting for Nancy Floreen.[/quote]

[b]Why are developers seen as so terrible in MoCo?[/b] I live in Wheaton and we would love some development over here.

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They jam pack as many people in one area as possible.  
[b]Schools, roads, traffic suffer[/b]
[b]They make no effort into fitting into the feel of existing neighborhoods.  [/b]
[b]Cookie cutter[/b] 
[b]Zero foresight[/b]

Example - remember when Walmart wanted to build on Rockville Pike?  They were going to occupy a pretty small strip mall.  Zero foresight to how that would make the horrendous traffic and congestion 10x worse.  Thankfully the plan wasn't approved.

Go lure them over to Wheaton.  The other side of the redline is saturated. [/quote]

So, when they built your cookie-cutter SFH, did they take into the account the same things you are complaining about?  Probably not, which is why it was built in the first place.  A majority of the development in MoCo has been apartments and townhomes, most of which have been bought by millennials, something that the County is desperately in need of in order to pay for things such as improved roads, and school construction.  It's also debatable as to whether these new developments have contributed to school congestion, which has been correlated more towards demographic changes.  [/quote]

I don't live in a cookie cutter SFH, but you are correct, MoCo has a long history of over development.

I cannot believe one would argue that 355 hasn't been OVER DEVELOPED in the past ten years.  Again, if Silver Spring and Wheaton wants the developers, please take them.  Enough is enough over on this side of the county.[/quote]

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