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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In MoCo, where many downcounty schools are severely overcrowded (and have been for years with no relief or delayed relief), and traffic is beyond awful (roads fail the county's own road tests, again with no relief in site), it makes no sense to make policies to add density without also doing something to these other infrastructures.  Which is exactly what the planning board intends to do[/quote]

The beyond-awful traffic is because of the spread-out-ness, actually.[/quote]

Partly. But I live walking distance to a metro station, which is where they want to build more dense housing, and we are still very car dependent for anything beyond going to downtown DC.  There’s no plan to build more walkable amenities like a grocery store, etc., just more apartments. Whose residents will also largely be car dependent.[/quote]

Well, sure, if you live within walking distance of Forest Glen Metro, for example. There's lots of stuff a mile and a half north at Wheaton Metro, and there's lots of stuff half a mile south on the other side of the Beltway, but Georgia Avenue is awful, so you don't want to walk to either one. Fortunately, there are plans to fix this.[/quote]

You haven't looked into those plans very well.  Doesn't address crossing the beltway, among many other shortcomings.[/quote]

And no dedicated funding. GA Ave is the worst.[/quote]

Yes, Georgia Avenue is the worst now, but there are plans to make it better. And some of those plans are funded.[/quote]

Those plans are limited and piecemeal in geography, don't address holistic area needs holistically and are inadequate to the now-stated aims, cut back from the inadequate plans that had been put forward years back.  They don't want to spend the money it would take to really improve things in less wealthy areas.[/quote]

There aren't any plans!
Actually there are plans.
The plans aren't funded!
Actually there is funding.
The plans aren't good enough!

I mean, I agree the plans aren't good enough, but that's not an argument against housing near Metro, it's an argument to keep making and funding plans to improve Georgia Avenue for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit.[/quote]

And an argument to stop building apartment buildings with more parking spaces than units, especially near metro stations in Georgia Avenue. [/quote]

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