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But the information we don’t have is precisely my point. Basing decisions on solitary data points and not projections over time is just terrible planning. Pretending that solitary data points justify current decisions is also terrible planning. This kind of wishful thinking about making decisions on what is happening now and basing infrastructure on current status instead of accurately projected status is exactly why so many schools are overcrowded. Planning Board decided that because SFH were where children used to live, that is where they would always live. 10 years later... Surprise! Some time spent analyzing the changing populations and demographics of the county would have been useful in understanding just how many children would be in townhouses.

[b]Now, I don’t have this data.[/b] I’m a SAH mom on DCUM during baby’s nap time. But just because I’m in yoga pants with bad hair doesn’t mean I don’t have eyes in my head. Do developers think we are stupid? I live up near Germantown and Clarksburg. I am super unimpressed with MoCo Planning Board. And this blog feels very suspiciously like laying the groundwork for some wide-eyed innocence “just the facts, Ma’am” about some upcoming terrible planning choices. Schools are crowded. Traffic is insane. Fields are getting plowed under every day. Many people with little kids can’t afford SFH’s anymore and it is OBVIOUS to anyone with some basic imagination that high rises are very likely going to be the new townhomes if our population continues to grow at the same pace. How much? I don’t know. Planning Board should care to know, to find out, to make decently accurate predictions based on reality and the welfare of our county and not just on what developers WISH would be true. And throwing their hands into the air and saying that they can’t possibly figure it out because who can tell the future, let’s just look at what we know NOW is the opposite of what the Planning Board is supposed to be any good at.[/quote]

Ask for it, by leaving a comment on the blog. I mean that. Ask how the student generation rates have changed over time. It's a good question.

You might be interested in this recent report, too: https://montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MP_TrendsReport_final.pdf The section on housing starts on p. 45. The county is actually building less housing in the 2010s than in the 2000s and 1990s.

Fields are getting plowed under every day in Clarksburg, based on (bad) decisions the Planning Board and County Council made [b]in 1994[/b]. The current Planning Board had nothing to do with that.[/quote]

Yah, if I seem a bit... hostile, it is because I have lived here all my life and I am well aware of 1990’s Planning Board. Doesn’t mean this one gets to make the same mistakes and act surprised if the same problems emerge.[/quote]

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