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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, this is an argument for never allowing any change, on grounds that the change would be change. But change happens, one way or the other, even if you don't allow it. And we don't give current residents veto power over the future.[/quote] No. It is an argument for change to come with proper input, principally from those most directly affected. Government by consent of the governed-type stuff. This involves well-informed compromise, neither veto from the one side nor railroading from the other -- which largely is what we see, today, with limited exception for those most wealthy/powerful.[/quote] The Planning Department RIGHT NOW is collecting that input. Everyone has their opportunity RIGHT NOW to offer their input. Actually everyone has had their opportunity to offer their input for well over a year, but there is even more opportunity RIGHT NOW. Government by consent of the governed comes when the Montgomery County Council, which is elected by the voters of Montgomery County, officially adopts the plan.[/quote] Great. Then [i]right now[/i], there should [i]have been[/i]: Postcards received 2-3 weeks ago by [i]all[/i] of the residents of neighborhoods of which any of the study [i]might reasonably be considered a part[/i] (this clearly did not happen), Providing the kind of [i]reasonably fullsome understanding[/i] as noted above (e.g., 3 suggested visualizations with public facility impacts), and Allowance for meetings long enough to permit [i]free-form[/i] input from any of those residents who wish to provide it and all of that input considered for [i]changes to the scope of the study, itself[/i], as that requisite level of impact awareness was not a part of the well-over-a-year part of the engagement. The County Council is politically astute enough (as is the planning board) to make sure that the public engagement box has been checked (you don't see presentations on these matters without a slide showing that timeline) so that they can claim consent of the governed. Those in the system, Councilmember and otherwise, are also politically astute enough to adopt approaches that limit likely opposition to their policy aims.[/quote] Well, no, the County Council gets the consent of the governed when the County Council gets elected. If I were you, I would stop complaining about the community engagement that I thought the Planning Department should have done, and start engaging with the community engagement that the Planning Department is actually doing.[/quote] When the decisions are made ahead of time it is no longer community "engagement" but rather community management.[/quote] What decisions have been made ahead of time, who has made these decisions, and how do you know? It sounds like you'd rather complain about the process than engage in the process.[/quote] The expansive definition of transit center. Density in White Oak, Silver Spring, etc is good and useful. Density along the in between stops is not and cannibalizes efforts to revitalize the hubs.[/quote] The proposed STATIONS (not "centers", not "stops") in the Countywide Transit Corridors Functional Plan are at University Boulevard and -Amherst Ave -Inwood Ave -Arcola Ave -Dennis Ave -Colesville Rd [/quote] They are bus stops. It's this sort of word game that annoys people.[/quote] The word game is being played by you, and yes, it's annoying me. You are deliberately using "bus stop" as misinformation. People who want to know the difference between a bus "stop" and a BRT "station" can go look at Columbia Pike next to Trader Joe's. That permanent construction with the ticket machine? That's a [u]station[/u] for the FLASH bus, which is supposed to be BRT, although unfortunately it mostly isn't, because it has to operate in the same lane as cars. That sign on a pole, near a bus shelter? That's a bus [u]stop[/u] for the Z Metrobuses and the 21 and 22 RideOn buses.[/quote]
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