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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only way MCPS should fund VA is it’s used for kids who can’t behave in regular school and to address overcrowding when there’s new development. [/quote]

Neither of those is plausible. [/quote]

All it would take is political will to give students who aren’t disruptive a safe learning environment and to make developers pay for the schools their projects need. So you’re right. It’s implausible. [/quote]

The idea that developers would or should pay for schools is ridiculous. They don't pay for it-- the young families buying those homes ultimately pay for it. Twice-- first with the home, then with their taxes. Boomers buying their first homes didn't get hit with an extra charge for building schools-- everyone paid for those schools through their taxes.[/quote]

I disagree. The developers have to pay their fair share. [/quote]

OK, but their fair share is nothing. There's a housing shortage. Families need a place to live. You're just trying to avoid paying your fair share for schools. You benefited from public policies when you were younger that paid for schools from taxes. But now that you're an older homeowner, you want to push the costs onto young families.[/quote]

That assumes that develops can push the cost onto buyers.  At some point, they can’t because people will buy resale houses instead of new.  We don’t really need more houses in MoCo-/we are pretty dense already.  We just need more turnover.  Developers make tons of money so at least some of the cost will likely come out of their pocket—the market won’t support moving it all to consumers.  Perfectly good houses are getting ripped down every day because developers profits are so insanely high.  And then all that is available is 1.6M mega builds instead of nice modest family homes.  developers are creating this housing crisis and making it harder for you to buy a house.  Cutting back on their profits will help you. [/quote]

Much of MoCo isn't dense. That's the problem. People fight dense development, which is why we see so many "mega builds" instead of townhomes. Only much greater supply will address housing problems, but people that already own are interested in artificially constraining the supply. And, to add to that, now they want to artificially increase costs by shifting school costs onto homebuyers instead of taxpayers in general.[/quote]

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