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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this true?:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1226381.page[/quote]

You tax things you want to discourage. Do you think we should be discouraging the creation of housing?[/quote]

This is an absurd comment, it has to be paid for somehow. The county needs to build schools and expand infrastructure to accommodate additional residents. Without impact fees everyone else in the county has to pay for this through increased property taxes and sales taxes. The cost of expanding infrastructure should be directly realized by the private property owners that are causing the county to incur this expense. For someone that talks about market oriented solutions you seem like a big fan of socialism when negative externalities don't support your YIMBY dogma.  [/quote]

Basically, the YIMBY logic is let the markets decide except for when it is inconvenient to their political agenda. In this situation, everyone else should pay for it and be grateful for higher taxes. [/quote]

Everyone who lives in Montgomery County should read this: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2024/20240910/testimony/item5-GlennOrlin.pdf. It’s a great summary of how Planning and Friedson have this wrong and points out how Friedson is trying to pull a fast one. It’s always this way with Planning, almost as if they know their ideas can’t stand on their own so there’s always some trickery. [/quote]

If Glenn Orlin wanted to still be telling the County Council how to do things, then he shouldn't have retired, twice. It's not the 1970s in Montgomery County anymore. Or anywhere else, either.[/quote]

You never want to discuss the substance. You just want to attack the messenger, question others’ right to speak, distract from the issue at hand, or drown out alternative views. It speaks volumes about YIMBYism that you don’t engage the substance once it goes past your seven-word canned answers, which are misleading, by the way.

For anyone looking for the Orlin testimony it’s on the council website:

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2024/20240910/testimony/item5-GlennOrlin.pdf

If you have a stake in MCPS, you should read what Orlin writes very carefully. If the planning proposal passes, important capital projects will be cut or pushed further down the road. [/quote]

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