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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jwando is a hard no from me.

Friedson seems like the most moderate and common sense to me. I would like to know more about why people say he’s in developers pockets (other than just accusations, but I’d like to learn about that).

Glass is a mystery to me. He seems like a nice guy, but really all I know about him is that he is a vegan and gay. He needs to do a better job messaging his positions. He does a great job promoting vegan restaurants and that he’s gay.

Those are our only options and frankly none of those excite me. Elrich did a fantastic job at ruining the county and the county needs to redirect to dig itself out of this hole.[/quote]

Friedson has repeatedly sponsored legislation to give his developer donors multimillion dollar tax breaks and is also working to undermine the county’s affordable housing policy. In addition, his donor base is heavily tilted toward developers, development lobbyists, and development lawyers. Those are three reasons people say he’s in developers’ pockets.[/quote]

Because MoCo is woefully behind DC and NoVa in terms of job growth, infrastructure, and housing, retail and corporate HQ development I would actually welcome a candidate like this. Voting Friedson and will actually campaign for him if he’s as pro growth as you make him out to be. I want the complete opposite policies regarding economic development as we have now. MoCo could be so much nicer with more capable leadership. I want less annoying, pointless regulations like plastic bag bans and better schools, better amenities, more housing that isn’t only retirement homes or low income housing, more jobs, and nicer roads, bike paths, and public amenities. Anyone who can work toward that has my vote.[/quote]

When you find out the plans are to deal with schools and roads and jobs let us know.  What we’ve seen so far is barely regulated upzoning and zero talk of dealing with the repercussions of that on those items, let alone something that would improve them.  Is the plan to let people build housing wherever they want and somehow that the libertarian Ponzi scheme will lead to some trickle down theory to improve infrastructure after the building happens?

New tax revenue from density is going to support all of the needed infrastructure in a timely and efficient manner?

Ok, yeah.[/quote]

This is my big issue with the development.  In our neighborhood, every house that goes down (usually with an older person in it), leads to two or three being built for people with families.  (Plus they are replacing middle class housing with very upper middle class housing, which is tiresome.)  Our schools are so overcrowded.  It takes decades for the county to get around to building new schools.  At best, they just expand the current schools so you end up with an ES that has multiple floors and wings, but no field space to play games.  I don't think they should keep expanding the development unless the developers are willing to buy some property to set aside as new schools.  The private schools seem to be able to find properties to buy to keep expanding, but there's no $$ for MCPS to buy space for additional schools.

I think I'm leaning to Glass, unenthusiastically, by process of elimination.  [/quote]

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