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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone is commenting on the Post article today about Takoma Park about “let’s get upzoning”—same style of talk[/quote]
[b]In fact, Takoma Park is the first place in the county that should be upzoned.[/b] The game for too long was a TKPK dominated Council upzoning everywhere else in the county and calling people that complained racist, while protecting Takoma Park from density. [/quote]

Then you will need to move to Takoma Park and run for city council, because Takoma Park has its own zoning authority.[/quote]

Why would they need to move there to think that it’s the first place that should be upzoned?  If anything, its exclusion from the reaches of the county planning board proves their point.[/quote]

If their point is that incorporated municipalities in Montgomery County that existed before the creation of the Montgomery-National Capital Park and Planning Commission have their own planning and zoning authority, then yes, that proves their point[/quote]
Ah yes, here’s the game. Takoma Park YIMBY activitist licking behind their sheltered walls. Go and protest the folks in Chevy Chase about a library while protecting your parking lots.

[b]No one gives a crap about the administrative minutiae CSS of how you orchestrate your game.[/b] We just see the outcome of your rank hypocrisy. [/quote]

I don't understand what the sentence means. Are you saying that nobody cares about the structure and function of local government? That's clearly false.

YIMBY activists don't protect parking lots, in Takoma Park or otherwise.[/quote]

DP.  I suppose we should adopt legislation that prohibits residents of areas with their own zoning authorities from being involved in zoning activity in any surrounding area, then.  Mandatory recusal, etc.[/quote]

Why would we do this? Residents of the City of Takoma Park (or the City of Rockville, or the City of Gaithersburg, or the Town of Poolesville, or the Town of Chevy Chase, or...) are also residents of Montgomery County.[/quote]

I dunno...for the sake of ensuring that folks aren't directing policy for which they suffer no repercussion (or much less than those more directly  affected)?  Kind of a basic principle of good governance in a democratic system.[/quote]

To repeat: residents of incorporated municipalities in Montgomery County are residents of Montgomery County. Speaking of basic principles of good governance in a democratic system. If you want a say in City of Gaithersburg zoning decisions, become a resident of the City of Gaithersburg.[/quote]

Wonderful perpetuation of the line without nod to the inequty presented to those in unincorporated areas, where decisions can be made that greatly affect them by those with little or no skin in the game.  If you don't like the suggested restriction, why not offer an alternative wherein such residents have equivalent protection?  Say...

Allowing (and making ubiquitous) "light" incorporation of such areas for zoning purposes,

Redefining the scope of authority for incorporated areas to exclude zoning.[/quote]

The inequity of all Montgomery County residents having a say in Montgomery County land use decisions? The inequity of City of Rockville's residents having a say in City of Rockville's land use decisions vs non-residents of city of Rockville who don't? The inequity of there being incorporated municipalities with planning/zoning authority in Montgomery County? I sincerely don't get it. [/quote]

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