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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s sadly way too much “community involvement” and “environmental studies”. Anybody can make a fuss and block a project, it’s crazy! With these, there’s no way the county can grow to the level it needs to be competitive to NOVA. Maryland is a bunch of busybodies that love to shuffle money around without anything getting done. Let people build, let businesses come and make money. It’s not that hard. [/quote]
What “environmental studies” are being done or even legally mandated? What an absolutely idiotic and bizarre statement. [/quote]
Are you mentally challenged or have you never been involved in building anything in the county? Stormwater runoff management has been getting stricter, easements that are hard to modify restrict ability to build as needed, tons of traffic studies to appease the boomers that complain about “more traffic”. And this is just stuff I dealt with on Thursday. [/quote]

DP.  So should we ignore stormwater management (local flooding, water quality) or it that we have new regulations, there?  Or is it that they are actually following the regulations that have been on the books?  I'd prefer not to have a reshaped neighboring property suddenly dumping runoff into my yard and flooding the basement.

I don't think we should be looking to undo easements, should we?  They get put into place as a voluntary thing, except where eminent domain or the like (e.g., for utility lines) comes in, no?  Perhaps purchased by one neighbor from another to ensure property access, etc.?  Or are you talking about an easement where all the involved parties agree to dissolve the easement, but the county/planning makes it hard to get that on the books?  I can see that as being something they should facilitate instead of obstruct.

I don't think we get traffic studies for by-right housing, do we?  Especially SFH construction.  I don't think the community should lose its ability to ensure some controls when a developer seeks to go beyond the bounds of by-right (i.e., outside existing zoning/regulation -- requesting a variance).

I could be wrong about all of that, but the kinds of things I hear about where environmental studies are involved are large developments that require variances.[/quote]

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