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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I am also great dismayed by how the Council and Planning Board seem to be ramming this through, with smug dismissals of their constituents concerns.  The responses to concerns voiced in the listening sessions, on the website are so condescending, it is maddening. They just don't care about the communities.

So, what's next-- assuming this is passed, are we going to have to band together and sue?  [/quote]

Curious, I wasn’t able to join last night’s session. What was the tone of council members in attendance? Smug? The MoCo 360 article simply said they corrected mischaracterizations of the proposal but gave little additional info.

As for suing, I’d contribute. I think it’s despicable that they’re ramming this thing through and also doing so under a fog of limited outreach to communities, especially communities with higher rates of homeowners who are POC. It’s sneaky and exploitative of the developers.[/quote]

Friedson didn’t allow any other council members to speak but Jawando and Balcombe attended.

Friedson wants to run for CE. People thinking about opposing him would do well to line up on the other side of this and make him own this very poorly thought out and nonserious proposal even more than he already does. Upzoning may actually be a an effective approach to lowering housing costs but it’s hard to know whether this particular proposal would have that effect here because planning hasn’t analyzed the effects of the recommendations.

It’s disappointing to see the trajectory that Friedson has taken. He came into office with a reputation for being good at budgets and data but he’s been pretty duplicitous and has committed the county to big decisions based on little or no analysis. [/quote]

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