Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County legislators are pushing a bill that would put more housing near metro without concern for overcrowding of schools.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2024/02/moco-legislators-pushing-bill-that-will.html

Well Metro has a HUGE budget shortfall (I mean, so many fare avoiders!) that it has threatened to decrease service.

How is that going to work out when they cut lines and close stops?

Metro has a huge budget shortfall because Virginia and Maryland have not yet contributed their funding. If Metro had its own funding source, we wouldn't have to go through this song-and-dance all the time. Don't want Metro to cut lines and close stops? Tell your state legislators to fund Metro.

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County legislators are pushing a bill that would put more housing near metro without concern for overcrowding of schools.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2024/02/moco-legislators-pushing-bill-that-will.html

Well Metro has a HUGE budget shortfall (I mean, so many fare avoiders!) that it has threatened to decrease service.

How is that going to work out when they cut lines and close stops?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The county needs more housing without more traffic; this is a win. MCPS needs to better use the capacity they have; that's on the BOE. Or something like that.

+1

I fully support what the council wants to do.

And the county taxpayers, not the developers, will pay for those new schools, if we can find physical space for those schools. Have you driven past Blair HS lately? It has 25 portables. Watch those age in place as we add more.

Same for RM. Portables and the school is so over taxed and understaffed that they have closed down several bathrooms in the building due to lack of security.

Yet, there is TONS of high density housing going up in that area. The poor families at Twinbrook Elementary.

No plans to build new schools there.

Anonymous wrote:The county needs more housing without more traffic; this is a win. MCPS needs to better use the capacity they have; that's on the BOE. Or something like that.

This is either a troll response or someone with no kids in MCPS. First of all, there is a baked-in assumption that mixed-income and low-income housing residents don't own cars if they are walking distance to public transportation. As a result, new buildings often have far fewer parking spaces than they do units. However, the assumptions here are not actually true, particularly post-covid. All of the amenities that make it possible for white collar professionals to comfortably work from home and have their take-out, groceries, and office supplies delivered to their door? Those are all brought by residents of multi-family dwellings using their own personal vehicles. In the gig economy, a working class family needs a car, and needs somewhere to park it.

Further, in most of these neighborhoods, there is no capacity to use. Schools at all levels are giving up playground and outdoor space to make room for portable classrooms. The failure of our municipal/county leadership to work with MCPS to deal with these issues is not only troubling, but ultimately will damage any nascent YIMBY movement that would have otherwise developed.

Basically, the YIMBY approach in MoCo is one of "heightening the differences." Rather than making things better for everyone by building enough parking or working with the school district to absorb capacity, the approach is to make everyone so miserable that they start riding public transportation because the roads are so gridlocked with InstaCart drivers that regular residents can't get out of the neighborhoods.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The county needs more housing without more traffic; this is a win. MCPS needs to better use the capacity they have; that's on the BOE. Or something like that.

+1

I fully support what the council wants to do.

As do the majority of Montgomery County voters. Seeing as how we all continue to vote for the same politicians.

Yay for overcrowded schools!!

The goal is to urbanize Montgomery County.

Anonymous wrote:As long as their developer pals make a quick buck nobody cares

Yep. And our kids suffer.

Anonymous wrote:As long as their developer pals make a quick buck nobody cares

This.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The county needs more housing without more traffic; this is a win. MCPS needs to better use the capacity they have; that's on the BOE. Or something like that.

+1

I fully support what the council wants to do.

And the county taxpayers, not the developers, will pay for those new schools, if we can find physical space for those schools. Have you driven past Blair HS lately? It has 25 portables. Watch those age in place as we add more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The county needs more housing without more traffic; this is a win. MCPS needs to better use the capacity they have; that's on the BOE. Or something like that.

The mantra of those beholden to developers.

If you wany more housing, pay for all the infrastructure it needs, including schools. If the financial demand isn't there to support it and you want to create a social program to supplement so that the economics work, then fund it, raising taxes to do so and taking whatever the political fallout would be. If you can't do that in a particular location, development needs to happen elsewhere, where you can. Failing to take one of these approaches just sets up a financial burden for following generations (in addition to the infrastructure deficit borne by the affected communities).

School capacity may exist in farther-flung areas, but it isn't there in the already dense areas of the county where they are proposing this giveaway to special interests who would, essentially, be creating regionally biased underserved communities. As if we don't have enough of that already.

But, hey! They can foist more and more of this on the less educated populace that would tend to inhabit those, all the while claiming to be some kind of housing savior to keep themselves elected. Bread and circuses worked for Roman consuls and emperors. Politics hasn't changed that much in the last two millenia.

They can always add another 25 portables to Blair...

Anonymous wrote:The county needs more housing without more traffic; this is a win. MCPS needs to better use the capacity they have; that's on the BOE. Or something like that.

+1

I fully support what the council wants to do.

Anonymous wrote:The county needs more housing without more traffic; this is a win. MCPS needs to better use the capacity they have; that's on the BOE. Or something like that.

The mantra of those beholden to developers.

If you wany more housing, pay for all the infrastructure it needs, including schools. If the financial demand isn't there to support it and you want to create a social program to supplement so that the economics work, then fund it, raising taxes to do so and taking whatever the political fallout would be. If you can't do that in a particular location, development needs to happen elsewhere, where you can. Failing to take one of these approaches just sets up a financial burden for following generations (in addition to the infrastructure deficit borne by the affected communities).

School capacity may exist in farther-flung areas, but it isn't there in the already dense areas of the county where they are proposing this giveaway to special interests who would, essentially, be creating regionally biased underserved communities. As if we don't have enough of that already.

But, hey! They can foist more and more of this on the less educated populace that would tend to inhabit those, all the while claiming to be some kind of housing savior to keep themselves elected. Bread and circuses worked for Roman consuls and emperors. Politics hasn't changed that much in the last two millenia.

The county needs more housing without more traffic; this is a win. MCPS needs to better use the capacity they have; that's on the BOE. Or something like that.

As long as their developer pals make a quick buck nobody cares

Montgomery County legislators are pushing a bill that would put more housing near metro without concern for overcrowding of schools.

https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2024/02/moco-legislators-pushing-bill-that-will.html