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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's so much simpler than any of you have stated.

Municipalities want growth because it means more taxpayers - both corporate and individual.  It's all about revenue.[/quote]

Oh, I thought it was because bureaucrats enjoy kickbacks from developers? Please advise.[/quote]

Except that it is a Ponzi scheme.  New residents cost more in infrastructure than they provide in tax revenue.  Businesses maybe, but here in MoCo, we don't do business.[/quote]

Your point is a bit muddled but it costs Montgomery County much less to accommodate new growth down county than up county where you need new roads, utilities, services etc.  Yes you need to increase school capacity in both places but everything else is much less expensive to do in existing transit anchored communities - even fire and EMS services are less expensive in denser neighborhoods because those services are largely  a function of geographic coverage and not population density.

And there are local and global benefits to preserving open space up county and not much downside to converting surface parking lots to higher density uses.

Unless you are a zero population zealot you need to have a feasible plan for accommodating population growth - and most countries with shrinking populations are headed for demographic and fiscal disasters.[/quote]

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