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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t bother to sign petitions people. They give a false sense of security and are completely ineffective. You need to be sending emails nonstop, requesting meetings with elected representatives and showing up to attend any public events where you can provide public statements to your elected representatives stating opposition to the proposal. Have people protest about it every day. This is proposal is a disaster and we need to do everything possible to have a chance at stopping it. [b]Otherwise the developers and real estate lobby will use their influence to screw over county residents.[/b] [/quote]

An interesting way to frame the issue, given that county residents will live in the housing that will be built as a result of the proposal.[/quote]

So the perceived needs of an unknown number of residents relocating within the county should completely outweigh the needs and wants of the very real current residents of SFH neighborhoods who purchased them under the current zoning regulations?

Besides, I thought that the planning board said that they needed these changes to provide housing for the projected new residents.  If people are residents, they have homes.[/quote]

Housing is not a perceived need, it's an actual need.

I can acknowledge that some county residents might not benefit from this proposal, but other county residents would benefit. Can you likewise acknowledge that some county residents would benefit from this proposal?[/quote]

^^^and also, the County Council should be focused on THE FUTURE of Montgomery County. The future of Montgomery County encompasses more than merely what current residents might or might not expect under current laws. I don't think the County Council should weigh "But when I bought my house, I expected the zoning to stay the same forever" more heavily than the what residents of Montgomery County will need in the future.

Or, to put it in more personal terms: I don't think the County Council should weigh my preferences more heavily than my kids' needs. If you don't care about the needs of county residents in the future, then keep doing what you're doing. I do care, though, and that's why I support the zoning proposal.[/quote]

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