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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is anti-development: some are anti development when the infrastructure cannot handle the people that are already there, let alone hundreds and/or thousands more.  This is where the awful traffic and overcrowded schools come into play.  Floreen doesn't care - she will pave over anything and is no friend of MCPS.  Ficker is a nut job.  He makes a living getting DUI people off (because we need them back on the road killing more people), has been disbarred multiple times, and has been banned form Washington basketball games for his inappropriate heckling (and that is not easy tondo).  And you want this bacon running out county?

Marc is the only logical choice.  [/quote]

Er I'm not sure I follow the logic of Elrich's vision for development...he's putting the cart before the horse.  You need people and/or corporations (tax base) first to pay for the infrastructure.  You can't have infrastructure first and expect people to come.  Supply and demand.  If you build a whole bunch of roads and no one comes, what's the point?  Infrastructure is one of many factors companies consider, but some of the other factors probably outweigh it like talent base and tax structure/incentives.  Every large metro area is infrastructure constrained.  Look at the Bay Area...101 and 880 are two large parking lots, BART is a mess.  No one wants to discourage the tech bros and that area is thriving.  BS in CS gets six figures out of school, crapshacks for $2M.

But now that I write it out, maybe his logic is kind of like WMATA's logic.  Make the product like crap so fewer people want it, make your ridership (or citizens in this case) leave so that demand actually meets the supply that you refuse to change.  Unfortunately the ones with the most means leave first...and that's not a good long-term financial decision.  [/quote]

+1 Schools, roads, and others infrastructure isn’t “pre-built”.  That’s not how it’s done but they already know that.  People really are anti-deveelopement.  The whole “developers” is such a straw man too.[/quote]

If you leave zero land space in an area and just build high rises and dense housing developments there is no space for parks, schools or Rec centers. Needing to knock down houses or businesses to build new roads is not a great way of doing things but that’s where we’re headed. There’s no planning except bulldozing and building. It sucks.[/quote]

We have Master Plans in MoCo. Bethesda has one, so we already know where any new parks or schools will go. In downtown Bethesda, the plot of land next to Mon Ami Gabi will become a small park once Purple Line construction is over. Then, the Womens Farm Market will likely be reworked to become part of a larger park area to include the parking lot behind it.

As for schools, we have a great plot of land on Brickyard Road in Potomac, but the NIMBY's convinced CoExec Leggett to veto the plans to use the field for soccer fields,and later a school -- despite the fact the plot of land was purchased and zoned for exactly that purpose! I can easily seeing Elrich saying no to that development also. It's stupid and it's bad for our kids.[/quote]

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