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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The economics of this is that building more housing in Arlington is going to reduce prices in Montgomery County and DC. The notion that all of the supply effects in one close in DC suburb will be captured by that suburb is laughable [/quote]

No.  Moco Bethesda and FX will go up if North ARL gets 3-6 units auto available with NO review for all lots now zoned SFH.  ARL has just done sloppy work.  SFH removed at 8th and veitch was replaced by 7 huge townhouses. MM sticks it at 6.  That lot could have been 12 smaller units with greenspace.  By the book MM ignores the actual potential etc for any given lot. [/quote]
MoCo is stupid, so I suspect they will be the next to follow suit. But Fairfax doesn’t do this nonsense. They don’t give their roads over to bike lanes. They don’t close roads for “streeteries”. They don’t do “missing middle”. They are not about these fads. They are also the most affluent county in the area with the highest growth of high wage private sector jobs.[/quote]

If you don't like the bike lanes and streeteries, don't use them. We don't want grumpy people like you there anyway. Problem solved![/quote]

Who is "we" in this context?

The people that voted for this nonsense? Oops, that didn't happen.

The constituency that SHOULD be represented by elected officials?  The officials that ignored all of the counter-evidence regarding he effectiveness of "thrive?"

Let's make the process transparent and then vote on it and we can see who comes out on top.  Maybe it can be broken down and you can get your bike lanes and streeteries and "we" get to keep the neighborhoods intact. I think that might be fair...though I am sure that all of the Veruca Salt YIMBYs would stamp their feet and yell IT'S NOT FAIR MUMMY, THEY HAVE SOMETHING I DON'T LIKE.[/quote]

The "process" was "transparent". You just don't like the outcome.[/quote]

Luckily “thrive” was just a “plan to make a plan,” as sold by its marketing reps.  Now we get to make the actual plans to fulfill whatever goals it thinks it will accomplish, and there will be time for public input at every step of the way.  Congrats, you managed to sneak a rough outline past the public, but I don’t think that it’s going to work the same moving forward :)

As they say, light is the best disinfectant.  It’s will be well more than one election cycle before they are breaking ground on any part of this plan.

[b]We can start by choosing the planning board and it’s director well[/b]…people that represent the voters.[/quote]

We who? Are you a county council member?[/quote]

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