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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elrich is generally pretty terrible, but he showed me something when he at least asked for a sober pause (no pun intended) when the Council rammed Thrive through, less than 2 weeks after the entire planning board resigned in disgrace.  [b]That was a new low for the level of the council insulting the citizens.  [/b]

Friedsen is OK, Katz is fine.  Glass is occasionally allright.

Mink is frighteningly bad and incompetent.  Kate Stewart was the mayor of Takoma Park so expect TP style politics from her.  Natali comes fresh from the planning board, so you know she will rubber stamp all growth be it smart or not.   Gabe seems logical, but also went through with the thrive grab.

Jawando is basically always wrong, and does more virtue signaling than even Mink. [/quote]

Not even that, they don't even know who the citizens are! They only listen to the Twitteratti like Dan Reed, Jane Lyons and all the GGWash online YIMBYs. That's who they think represent the voting public. [/quote]

Twitter isnt real life.  The Dan Reed hyper YIMBYS are obsessed about an issue 75% of Moco wasnt even aware existed.   Theyll figure it out fast once Thrive starts being implemented in their backyard, ad we'll see what, if anything happens then.

Reed, Mike English, all the other people who think zoning/housing are the only or most important issues in the world, are like the .001% of the real Montgomery County population who just want jobs, safety, and decent schools.   [/quote]
What’s funny is that the next phase of upzoning will by necessity all come back to Silver Spring once the Purple Line is finished. If the whole point is to increase density at transit stations, there is not much left to do outside of Silver Spring.

Downtown Bethesda = upzoned. Grosvenor = upzoned. White Flint = upzoned. Twinbrook = upzoned. Shady Grove = upzoned. Chevy Chase Lake = upzoned. Lytonnsville = upzoned.

Do you know what has not been upzoned? All of the Purple Line stops in Silver Spring. Takoma Metro Station infill. Forest Glenn Metro Station infill.

Low hanging fruit that need to be addressed before any other zoning changes are approved.[/quote]

Then Riemer and his buddies should put their money where their mouth is and allow it in Takoma Park.  Revoke the historical designation. [/quote]
Fun fact, Hans Riemer and his YIMBY buddy George Leventhal helped to torpedo a plan to build housing on the Takoma Metro parking lot in 2007, which is in DC!

They should be required to produce a plan like municipalities are now required to do in California, to produce a thousand units of new MFH with 15% MPDUs within a half-mile the metro station. Let them figure out how they want to do it.[/quote]

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