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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, planners did the indefensible and now the whole practice has changed to try to mitigate it. Learning from the past portends to a better future. What is your point?[/quote]

It looks like they’re still messing up in Montgomery County unless the plan was to maximize some developers’ profits at the expense of affordable housing and the county’s property tax revenue along with skyrocketing rents and negative job growth. [/quote]

The planners recommend. The elected officials decide. The elected officials are elected by the voters. Your disagreement is with the voters. You say everybody wants what you want, but the election results say otherwise. Your issue is not with the planners, it's with the voters.[/quote]

If the planners aren’t making recommendations that elected officials are willing to implement then they’re doing a bad job. There’s always a path to progress but it requires reading the room and moving the ball where you can. Just thinking about the past few years, our genius planning staff has opposed the one county-wide upzoning bill that was put forward and then poured a lot of resources into duplexes [b]only to have developers tell them that the math didn’t work in all but a few places[/b]. That’s not reading the room. That’s pursuing maximalist positions from the start and getting nothing done.

You also conveniently omit the planners’ role in development review, which is expensive and time consuming for developers. That process is terrible, runs for a long time before the matter even gets to the board, and delivers very little benefit to neighbors or developers. This process should go away but it won’t because planning uses it to justify headcount and because planners like rubbing elbows with real engineers and real economists.

Finally, the one elected official who’s openly hostile to growth has nothing to do with land use or planning, though he’d like to change that. [/quote]

Uh, that is the developers, the ones most NIMBYs call evil and greedy, exerting pressure on the system, including elected officials.[/quote]

No, that was developers providing data for a housing report that planning did after putting a lot of intellectual and political capital into duplexes. Probably would have made more sense to see if the idea would pencil out before pushing for it. [/quote]

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