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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never understood whats wrong with development[/quote]

Development is good when it’s carefully managed, but do it wrong and you stress your infrastructure. Right now, the vast majority of HoCo schools are above 100% capacity, and there isn’t nearly enough funds to build the schools to handle it. HS13 is about to open. Yet, we’re still behind and developers are still building.

Planning is hard, but you can’t call that good planning.
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Look to the years when these were zoned and what was on the table at the time. For instance,  the Milk Plant area, ML, etc., were zoned and planned way before  his tenure.  Developers are hardly planning new lots now compared to 5 years and before. Check your facts, and, again, your FB group isn't a source of credible facts. [/quote]

Ball has been a county council chairperson since 2006. The county council has to approve the budget submitted by the county executive, so he’s had to approve anything since 2006. He was also on the zoning board starting in 2009 alternating as chair and vice-chair, so he wasn’t exactly powerless before he became county executive. You don’t usually get to county executive without having a decent amount of influence first.

Ball was in a position to curb some of these developments or do better planning for it, like make developers shoulder more of the infrastructure costs. I don’t see any evidence he made it a priority.

No, it’s not all his fault, but again, he wasn’t powerless. He could have done something or made a stink about it. I just don’t think he saw it coming, so he didn’t take preventative actions. Now we’re playing catch up in a major way.

The school board bears more of the burden for redistricting as they’re the ones to execute it, but the overcrowding makes it harder. I’m sure it would be easier if HoCo had the capital for a couple of extra schools.

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Yeah, one county council member really isn't going to  change things for the  whole county,  and nor should that 
happen.  And growth is part of the county growth. Not having any development is ridiculous,  and the money to fund new schools came.  Then it was up to the school board to do it. It's super dumb to use this as a criticism  against the CE. Everyone , CE and council members voted similarly for years. Much of the housing growth  came under Kittleman and others before him. Now what is different between this CE and the other CEs? And what is the backlash agsinst redistricting about? 
Race. It's pretty much about race. [/quote]

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