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