Reply to What are W schools?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "What are W schools?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

This. Housing policy absolutely has a direct impact on schools. Where are they putting all the affordable apartment buildings in the area? THey're certainly not putting them near the Ws. [/quote]

Every development with 20 or more units has to have at least 12.5% of those units be affordable. (Keeping in mind that developments in the City of Rockville, the City of Gaithersburg, and the City of Takoma Park are subject to the planning authorities of those municipalities, not to the county planning authority.) And this summer, the county council passed a new law that says that in particularly affluent parts of the county, 15% of the units have to be affordable. So, for example, there's a preliminary plan for 59 single-family-attached houses (plus retail/office space) at the Cabin John shopping center on Tuckerman in Potomac; 8 or 9 of those are going to have to be affordable. https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/development/moco-planning-board-approves-preliminary-plan-for-cabin-john-village-development/

But that only applies to new development. Other things that would help increase the supply of affordable housing in Bethesda and Potomac: making it easier for people to add accessory apartments/dwelling units, allowing duplexes (or fourplexes, for large lots) on lots currently zoned for single-family-detached houses near infrastructure, and supporting further shopping center redevelopment.[/quote]
This sounds awful.  If I wanted to live in a concrete jungle with too much traffic I would have moved to No.Va.  
We moved to MoCo because it was less built up and had a highly regarded school system.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics