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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jawando appears to be the only NIMBY candidate, so he’s got my money and my vote.  Let’s get back to proper and sane planning.[/quote]

Agree. On Reddit subs, it seems that the developer shills are out in full force with anti jawando silliness which signals to me that jawando is my guy. As usual, the YIMBYs fail to realize that while they are the most vocal, they are not in the majority. [/quote]

Affordable Maryland’s ad and website look like amateur productions and are clearly misleading. They haven’t even paid attention to any of the polling on housing, which shows clear support for more housing near metro (something Jawando proposed) and clear opposition to sprawl like Friedson’s countywide upzoning. [/quote]

It’s actually something Jawando voted against. https://apps.montgomerycountymd.gov/ccllims/BillDetailsPage?RecordId=2668[/quote]

Try to pay more attention. During his first term, Jawando proposed allowing house-sized multifamily housing development in neighborhoods near metro stations while keeping in place setback and height limits for redevelopment. The public testimony on the Jawando bill was mostly favorable. Friedson would not even give it a work session in the committee. Had Friedson voted to move the bill forward, it would have gone back to the council for a vote. It was pretty NIMBY of Friedson, or maybe he just didn’t want to vote for something he wouldn’t get credit for.

This year Friedson did a countywide upzoning bill, increasing allowable density on lots all over the county, close to Metro or not, except in Potomac, where a lot of Friedson’s donors live. Most of the lots that Friedson’s bill upzoned are not within walking distance of metro stations or stores or restaurants. Friedson had originally been advocating a proposal to ban single family zoning everywhere, except in Potomac, of course. Friedson’s bill doesn’t stay true to the “compact development” principle and targets some of the most affordable single family homes in the county for redevelopment into apartments.

Upzoning near metro made a lot more sense than what we ended up with. [/quote]

Maybe you should try to pay more attention. The bill Jawando voted against is from 2020, not this year. You’re talking about something completely different. I’m taking about Jawando voting against a great piece of common-sense housing legislation for NIMBY reasons. [/quote]

You seem to be confused. Jawando voted against a bad subsidy for market rate housing to bail out one of Friedson’s donors. That same year, Jawando sponsored a bill to increase density near metro, only to have Friedson and Riemer let it die in the committee. Friedson then came late last year and advocated getting rid of single family zoning everywhere except Potomac. [/quote]

Are you a YIMBY or a NIMBY? Just wondering.[/quote]

Pro growth, but seen enough to say Friedson’s way of doing things hasn’t worked and smart enough to know his way of doing things will never work because it incentivizes the wrong behavior.  I know the YIMBYs dislike Jawando because he’s opposed (but not stopped) bad policies and pointed out how dumb they are but only in YIMBYland is Jawando a NIMBY. YIMBYism has never had growth as its first goal. Just profit. Look around. Landlords make plenty of money, but you can’t say we’ve had plenty of growth. [/quote]

One thing I've been struck by is how devoid the YIMBY movement is of any principles or critical thinking. It's just "build, build, build," and if you're opposed to that, then you're not a progressive. There's this dude Mike who posts all over Reddit and GGW with this nonsense, and it's just about how people opposed to "build, build, build" are stuck in their old ways and not real progressives. There's no analysis of why "build, build, build" hasn't achieved the desired goals to date, nothing about what specific policies are needed if the goal is affordable housing, nothing like that. It's just about demonizing anyone who doesn't believe in "build, build, build." It's remarkably oversimplistic and naive, and sells people on false hope.[/quote]

Their arguments are ridiculously weak.  [/quote]

Yet their bank accounts are flush with special interest money and their constituency is large due to the bread and circuses they promise the hoi polloi.  Don't look at the man behind the curtain![/quote]

+1. Anyone who thinks they need to raise $2 million to persuade voters that they are the best candidate probably knows deep down that they aren’t. [/quote]

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