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People understood intuitively before we changed the term “gentrification” to “upzoning.”[/quote]

Gentrification and upzoning have different names because they are different things.

Chevy Chase Lake was upzoned around the future Purple Line station. If you told me Chevy Chase Lake has been gentrified, I would laugh out loud.[/quote]

Gentrification and upzoning both involve the changing of a neighborhood's character against the wishes of the residents.  [b]People who live in SFH neighborhoods want exactly that. [/b] Very simple.  [/quote]

Some do. Some don't. Different people have different opinions! Very simple.[/quote]

It’s not that simple. [b]The majority of people who live in sfh neighborhoods don’t want mixed use housing[/b]. There are lots of places that are already mixed use and have density that can accommodate more of it without needing to change the zoning for existing sfh neighborhoods. [/quote]

So two things here.

First, there really is no way to know the accuracy of the bolded.  Personally, I live in a sfh neighborhood and want upzoning in my neighborhood.  The majority of my friends in the neighborhood also want it.

Second, it really isn't determinative whether the people already living in the neighborhood want the change.  What is determinative is whether it is best for the county, and whether it would meet the needs of all residents.  If we made policy based on what the people who already have something wanted, we would get nowhere as a society.[/quote]

Who determines what’s best for the county if not for the people that live and pay taxes in the county?  If it’s the case that people living in the county don’t matter then the YIMBYs should most definitely STFU.[/quote]

The point is to get more people living and paying taxes in the county...[/quote]

Roughly 50% of the County residents pay no income taxes.   MoCo needs to attract more residents who pay more taxes than they cost the County.  Instead, the County is focused on attracting residents who cost the County.

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Each student costs the county around $12,425 per year in local tax revenue. Outside of schools the county spends another $3,387 per resident each year (only including the non-school spending funded entirely from local tax revenue). Here are the hypothetical numbers for a new quadplex. Average household size in the county is 2.72 and the expected number of students (using townhome numbers) is 1.85. The residents living in this new quadplex will cost MOCO around $36,850 a year for county services (directly funding using local tax revenue) and another $33,796 each year for schools. [b]That brings the total (directly funded) cost each year to $70,646 for a single quadplex. [/b][/quote]

Assuming that the total assessed value of a new quadplex is around 2.5 million dollars that will provide the county with around $28,750-32,000 in property tax revenue (depending not the tax district) There is no way that other sources of local tax revenue come close to covering the remaining $38,646 that MOCO will spend on the residents of this new quadplex. [/quote]

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