Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 12:25     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am in favor of measures to allow property owners to build more types of housing on their property. I don't expect my neighborhood to remain unchanged from the day it was laid out (or the day I moved here). I also don't think that the pinnacle of land use is owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses surrounded by other owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses. So no, I am not a peddler of fear.


Well, we are all in this together! Unfortunately, there appears to be some disagreement about that. Just to be fair to the residents of the county, we should very openly discuss how it should be implemented (if at all) and at what scale. Once there are some options on the table, we should vote on them. They (the county) already rushed the Thrive plan through and said to not worry our pretty little heads about it because it's just a plan to make a plan...well, now will come the time to flesh out the actual plans, and the county isn't going to shove that down anyone's throat without some voter feedback, I would hope. They have two years to do their homework.


Montgomery County isn't governed by referendum (with exceptions for charter amendments). And the Thrive plan was "rushed through" in...3 years? 4 years? It seemed like centuries. Regardless of their position on Thrive, anybody who wasn't completely sick of hearing about Thrive before the Council vote either didn't care at all or was dead.


Are you high?

That garbage had more red flags than you could reasonably count, including those pointed out by people on the council, economists, and the consultants on diversity and racial equity that the thrive people hired…people simply wanted to wait until the new planning board came along and have a discussion then, but instead everyone just said, well…we know that it sucks, but whatevs. Let’s get these photo ops going and worry about reality later.

Reality is here, and everyone needs to be held accountable.


Everyone already was held accountable, by the voters, in November. You just don't like the outcome.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2023 11:43     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am in favor of measures to allow property owners to build more types of housing on their property. I don't expect my neighborhood to remain unchanged from the day it was laid out (or the day I moved here). I also don't think that the pinnacle of land use is owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses surrounded by other owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses. So no, I am not a peddler of fear.


Well, we are all in this together! Unfortunately, there appears to be some disagreement about that. Just to be fair to the residents of the county, we should very openly discuss how it should be implemented (if at all) and at what scale. Once there are some options on the table, we should vote on them. They (the county) already rushed the Thrive plan through and said to not worry our pretty little heads about it because it's just a plan to make a plan...well, now will come the time to flesh out the actual plans, and the county isn't going to shove that down anyone's throat without some voter feedback, I would hope. They have two years to do their homework.


Montgomery County isn't governed by referendum (with exceptions for charter amendments). And the Thrive plan was "rushed through" in...3 years? 4 years? It seemed like centuries. Regardless of their position on Thrive, anybody who wasn't completely sick of hearing about Thrive before the Council vote either didn't care at all or was dead.


Are you high?

That garbage had more red flags than you could reasonably count, including those pointed out by people on the council, economists, and the consultants on diversity and racial equity that the thrive people hired…people simply wanted to wait until the new planning board came along and have a discussion then, but instead everyone just said, well…we know that it sucks, but whatevs. Let’s get these photo ops going and worry about reality later.

Reality is here, and everyone needs to be held accountable.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2023 21:13     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
I love GGWash. They post pieces like the ones that claim Baltimore has a housing shortage.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2023 20:59     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
This article has lots of focus on Takoma Park without mentioning another elephant in the room - the TP Historic District, which means zoning changes under thrive can’t apply to much of TP, including areas near the Metro station. Those TP elected officials who support Thrive and get showered with praise in this article are NIMBYs themselves if they haven’t actively tried to change TP’s zoning to allow themselves to be part of the changes they seek elsewhere.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2023 17:12     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am in favor of measures to allow property owners to build more types of housing on their property. I don't expect my neighborhood to remain unchanged from the day it was laid out (or the day I moved here). I also don't think that the pinnacle of land use is owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses surrounded by other owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses. So no, I am not a peddler of fear.


Well, we are all in this together! Unfortunately, there appears to be some disagreement about that. Just to be fair to the residents of the county, we should very openly discuss how it should be implemented (if at all) and at what scale. Once there are some options on the table, we should vote on them. They (the county) already rushed the Thrive plan through and said to not worry our pretty little heads about it because it's just a plan to make a plan...well, now will come the time to flesh out the actual plans, and the county isn't going to shove that down anyone's throat without some voter feedback, I would hope. They have two years to do their homework.


Montgomery County isn't governed by referendum (with exceptions for charter amendments). And the Thrive plan was "rushed through" in...3 years? 4 years? It seemed like centuries. Regardless of their position on Thrive, anybody who wasn't completely sick of hearing about Thrive before the Council vote either didn't care at all or was dead.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2023 14:27     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
Anonymous wrote:I am in favor of measures to allow property owners to build more types of housing on their property. I don't expect my neighborhood to remain unchanged from the day it was laid out (or the day I moved here). I also don't think that the pinnacle of land use is owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses surrounded by other owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses. So no, I am not a peddler of fear.


Well, we are all in this together! Unfortunately, there appears to be some disagreement about that. Just to be fair to the residents of the county, we should very openly discuss how it should be implemented (if at all) and at what scale. Once there are some options on the table, we should vote on them. They (the county) already rushed the Thrive plan through and said to not worry our pretty little heads about it because it's just a plan to make a plan...well, now will come the time to flesh out the actual plans, and the county isn't going to shove that down anyone's throat without some voter feedback, I would hope. They have two years to do their homework.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2023 14:07     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
I am in favor of measures to allow property owners to build more types of housing on their property. I don't expect my neighborhood to remain unchanged from the day it was laid out (or the day I moved here). I also don't think that the pinnacle of land use is owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses surrounded by other owner-occupied single-unit-detached houses. So no, I am not a peddler of fear.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2023 13:46     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
Anonymous wrote:I consider myself to be more of a merchant of reality, really, though I am afraid of misinformation like this.

https://ggwash.org/view/88071/elected-officials-in-montgomery-county-have-nothing-to-fear-least-of-all-the-peddlers-of-fear?fbclid=IwAR05M1LTDIZXoX316P1aEiG_j58GbqGTo1FqNcX5PQRyjqimxTBCL8lhVm8


If the NIMBYs are so vocal and overrepresented, why wasn’t there a vote on Thrive? It should have passed easily.

I assume that if so many people are in favor that we will at
least be able to vote on any ZTA.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2023 13:40     Subject: Are you a PEDDLER OF FEAR? (dun dun duuun)
I consider myself to be more of a merchant of reality, really, though I am afraid of misinformation like this.

https://ggwash.org/view/88071/elected-officials-in-montgomery-county-have-nothing-to-fear-least-of-all-the-peddlers-of-fear?fbclid=IwAR05M1LTDIZXoX316P1aEiG_j58GbqGTo1FqNcX5PQRyjqimxTBCL8lhVm8