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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MOCO homeowners impacted will be smart to create covenants (like yesterday) before the council approves it.  And yes the council will approve it, and smugly condemn neighborhoods who have covenants.[/quote]

Was there a covenant adopted yesterday, or was it the conversation yesterday about covenants to which you were referring?

Agree that this is sailing towards passage, and likely without meaningful change from the Planning report or effective guardrails.  The rich detached SFH neighborhoods are the ones far more likely to have or establish the suggested covenants.  The Council may verbally condemn them, but the impact of their action will be condemning the less wealthy detached SFH neighborhoods to bear the brunt of the additional density, and those are, typically, already less well served by public facilities (e.g , school capacity issues).  Those areas are far [i]less[/i] likely to have protective covenants (or the protection of municipal zoning authority, like Rockville or Gaithersburg, or historic designation, like wealthy parts of Takoma Park), and they are far more concentrated to the east/in the Silver Spring area.

Again, bravo County Council/Planning for setting up even greater economic disparity!  :roll:[/quote]

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