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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not so much an MD-wide issue as a MoCo issue. MoCo has been a great place to live, but not to work, because they are so anti-business.

I think the winners will be MD counties near MoCo, like Frederick, Howard, Washington, Carroll, etc. If you live in Gaithersburg, it's not a stretch to move to Urbana or even Boonsboro and you can see a big improvement in quality of life. Those counties are more pro-business and harder on crime (judges tend not to release those arrested on own recognizance; the jails tend to honor immigration holds from INS).

[B]There's a reason a lot of your Amazon, UPS, and FedEx packages pass through distribution centers in MD that are not in MoCo and there are no such centers in MoCo itself..[/b][/quote]
The reason is simple.  Property values.  It has nothing to do with anything else.  Real estate is expensive in MoCo.  Too expensive for a warehouse distribution center.[/quote]

So it's cheaper to have entire fleets of trucks drive every day 50+ miles to MoCo from other parts of MD, and back again, just to benefit from lower property values?

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The county and the Planning Department are against any industrial or light industrial land uses. All they care about are housing and retail. [/quote]

By "the county" I hope you mean the residents because they are the ones who refuse to have anything like this near their houses. Do you know how long they've been trying to find a place for a school bus depot? Nobody wants it near them and they raise holy hell if it's proposed. This is not about the Planning Department specifically. The thing about Montgomery County is it is pretty built up and the parts that aren't are protected lands.[/quote]
The point about the bus depot actually proves the point about the distaste for industrial zones. The problem is that because the county gave away the bus depot before figuring out a new location. It decided that it did not like having an industrial zone near shady grove but did not plan for the location of a different industrial zone anywhere else. All the remaining land uses are either too expensive to convert to industrial use (residential/commercial) or they have decided that it’s off limits (agriculture). It was a problem of their own making and is directly related to the bourgeois distaste for industrial and semi-industrial activity in the county. [/quote]

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