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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you complaining about upcounty residents who drive cars -- you realize this was by design, from the progressives? We have a massive agricultural reserve that takes up 1/3 of all of MoCo, which is beautiful, and people live there on land plots that _cannot_ be smaller than a certain size by design, to _prevent_ density. This was all in the plan. Public transport simply isn't viable there.

https://visitmontgomery.com/explore/ag-reserve/

I think Reed is fine for promoting Silver Spring. I worry that he, like many politicians from TP and SS, forget that there's more to MoCo than just downcounty. Germantown, Damascus, Boyds, etc are all lovely places with residents whose voices also need to be heard.

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You are really struggling to understand out how this works and who is to blame.

People who care about land use and the environment want new housing built in locations that minimize the need for driving and all of the destructive infrastructure needed to support it.

So new housing should not be built at all in the ag reserve and that should preclude all the needed associated road infra and endless driving and the areas closer in should be upzoned which also precludes the need for all the associated road infra and endless driving.

All of which by the way costs less than the current sprawl housing which requires enormous hidden subsidies.

If you want a house on a big plot of land fine - pay for the infra needed to support it directly rather than expecting the rest of us to subsidize it.[/quote]

And there it is again.  Even with the nasty tone.

Live where we tell you to.  Work where we tell you to.  Anything else is destructive.  
Upzone as much as you want.  It's great, I'm all for it.

But not everyone wants to live in a high rise apartment or condo.   Don't make that decision out to be racist, or selfish, or destructive.

People can have and disagree with housing options without the need for all the smugness and name calling.  There isnt ONE correct, and only way to live. [/quote]

Fine - live where you want but pay for it and own it.  You should pay a supplemental tax for the additional cost of building new schools and the extra cost on top of that of busing kids all over upper Montgomery County.  You should pay supplemental taxes for all of the road widening necessitated by your choice and an extra tax for the damage all of this does to the Chesapeake Bay.

And please spare me the crocodile tears about what you can afford and own what this really is - these homes in Germantown, Urbana, Olney etc are not small $100,000 homes for the working classes - they are $500-$700,000 homes on larger lots populated by families driving two cars (often SUVs) all of which adds up to a lot of money being spent and the HHI numbers bear this out.  Sure there are some cheaper townhomes scattered around but that is not predominantly what is being built and why people are taking on awful commutes.

But the county wants to not upzone the down county and subsidize living in the upcounty so here we are choking on traffic and killing the planet.[/quote]

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