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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Housing. Pls explain what is happening. It will affect our immediate neighborhood. Multi family or multistory?? [/quote]

That proper explanation is very difficult is part of the problem.  There are a number of overlapping and interacting efforts by those who are pro-development (pro-development-at-the-expense-of-most-current-neighborhood-resident-preferences, more specifically, as not all development is seen as against those preferences).  Increased allowances for development via both MD and MoCo legislation, Thrive, plans for more BRT, etc.  It happens in pieces, and the whole picture is not well shown.

For example (and with inexact wording, here), new legislation allows increased density near public transportation hubs, which most might consider Metro/Purple Line stations or large bus transit centers, then BRT [i]stops[/i] are separately classified as a transportation hub and a new BRT line is proposed. Suddenly, communities that were nowhere near the scope of the increased density legislation when it was passed are right in devlopers' crosshairs.

Much of that which might really affect a particular community/communities is not properly vetted with those communities.  Some have had their edges broken off from a planning perspective, with the result, among other things, that the neighborhood postcard notice for changes no longer goes to the main body of the community.

It's a shame, but it's what one expects from politics, I guess.  I only see bits, myself, as you'd have to be all-in on the subject to really know -- even the Montgomery Planning folks with whom I've spoken are not really aware of the additional impacts of things like the state legislation, though they might know that related legislation was being considered at the time.[/quote]

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