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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep, Elrich just released a video today about how awful and stupid the upzoning is. I have no idea how much of a say he has in it, but I am thankful he's speaking out against it.[/quote]

He has no say in it. Some of what he says about it is right and some of what he says about is wrong. The proposal he outlined for housing would make housing prices even higher than the Planning proposal would. [/quote]

Get specific about what Elrich proposes that will make housing even more expensive. There’s nothing.

But more importantly, he makes two key points:

There is enough housing planned for development ALREADY in Montgomery County. We don’t have an issue is scarcity that developers want us to think warrants ruining SFH communities to ensure they make $$$ hassle free.

There is nothing in the “attainable housing plan” that ensures affordability- NOTHING. It’s just a plan to make it easier for developers to build quadplexes without having the “annoyance” of worrying about the impact on the community, including schools and infrastructure.[/quote]

Moratoria, for example, would make housing more expensive. [/quote]

Yes.  But they work towards ensuring adequate infrastructure, which, if left unaddressed, would make the housing created less valuable (not just the consequent price, but the intrinsic value to each resident and to society, collectively), along with all of the existing housing.

Please come up with solutions that do both, and among which full detail and robust comparative evaluations are made available for publicly available for comment for an extended period [i]prior[/i] to plans being put forth.[/quote]

We don't build infrastructure until we have the population that needs it.[/quote]

Those pushing density are doing so with an argument that there [i]is[/i] such a population already.[/quote]

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