Anonymous
09/07/2024 10:56
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Anonymous wrote:MoCo has always given developers everything they want. Will never change. Lots of people voted for Elrich over Blair in the hopes that the pro-development tendencies would be kept somewhat in check, but I'm not sure that it's made any difference.
No, MoCo has always given land use lawyers what they want: Lengthy planning approvals and slow permitting processes. You never hear the MoCo YIMBYs lobbying to change these things because the land use lawyers are major funders of the local YIMBY groups. You don’t see the council pushing to change it because the land use lawyers donate to their campaigns. We could have had so much more housing in the past 20 years if the planning process had fewer steps and permitting happened faster.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 23:38
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
MoCo has always given developers everything they want. Will never change. Lots of people voted for Elrich over Blair in the hopes that the pro-development tendencies would be kept somewhat in check, but I'm not sure that it's made any difference.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 20:15
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
I am in Friedson’s district and don’t really follow the council but this is insane and he will not get my vote
Anonymous
09/06/2024 19:44
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Waiting for YIMBYs to explain to us common folk why this is actually a good thing in 3….2….1….
Anonymous
09/06/2024 16:37
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Anonymous wrote:Andrew Friedson is sponsoring a bill that would use state school construction money to reduce tax rates for housing developers. In the bill, the impact tax owed by developers would be reduced by the amount of state aid that went toward school construction in previous years, meaning that the county would be using state aid to reduce taxes paid by developers instead of using it to build schools.
This tax cut would come on the heels of tax cuts in 2020 and 2023, which Friedson also strongly supported. The previous tax cuts contributed to falling impact tax revenue and shortfalls in the MCPS construction budget that forced cuts to the Woodward project and delays in renovations at Damascus and Magruder.
The latest proposal has strong support from land use attorneys who have been among Friedson’s biggest donors. Previous tax cut proposals favoring developers have passed the council unanimously or nearly unanimously even though Planning has failed to demonstrate that they were effective in causing housing prices to fall or construction to increase.
So much for prioritizing education.
You can read the bill here (Sec. 52-55(d)(3)):
https://montgomerycountymd.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=169&event_id=16241&meta_id=183002
It’s shocking the way he ran and presented himself versus the progressive agenda that he pushes. We voted for the guy based on being a left of center democrat, and now he’s engaged in yet another progressive Friedson Folly.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 15:37
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You must have linked to the wrong bill, because the bill you linked to doesn't say what you say it says.
It literally says the costs used to calculate taxes must be reduced by the amount of state aid. MCPS loses money. Developers gain money. It’s pretty simple. Typical YIMBY move to go with misinformation right away.
It literally says, "The tax rates must reflect the
County’s cost to construct a student seat, reducing the rates by a
factor equivalent to the portion of funding for capacity-adding
projects in the adopted school CIP attributed to State Aid."
Which is not what you said it says, and it's also not Montgomery County giving school money to developers.
You seem to struggle with reading. The bill reduces developers’ taxes based on how much money the county gets from the state for school construction and no other factor.
The connection between state aid for schools and the amount of the tax break for developers couldn’t be any clearer. It’s in the plain text of the bill. If you don’t like it take it up with the people who wrote the bill or its only sponsor, council president Andrew Friedson.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 15:30
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Anonymous wrote:Yes that is exactly what they are doing trying to defund schools to boost developer profits. This is absurd.
Please look up the profit margin for these "evil" developers.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 15:24
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You must have linked to the wrong bill, because the bill you linked to doesn't say what you say it says.
It literally says the costs used to calculate taxes must be reduced by the amount of state aid. MCPS loses money. Developers gain money. It’s pretty simple. Typical YIMBY move to go with misinformation right away.
It literally says, "The tax rates must reflect the
County’s cost to construct a student seat, reducing the rates by a
factor equivalent to the portion of funding for capacity-adding
projects in the adopted school CIP attributed to State Aid."
Which is not what you said it says, and it's also not Montgomery County giving school money to developers.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 15:19
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Anonymous wrote:Seriously? Why would a district 1 council member do this given the school overcrowding and other ails of MCPS. he represents me, and I will make sure i do not vote for him ever.
He's not doing it. The post is misinformation.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 15:19
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Anonymous wrote:You must have linked to the wrong bill, because the bill you linked to doesn't say what you say it says.
It literally says the costs used to calculate taxes must be reduced by the amount of state aid. MCPS loses money. Developers gain money. It’s pretty simple. Typical YIMBY move to go with misinformation right away.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 15:14
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Seriously? Why would a district 1 council member do this given the school overcrowding and other ails of MCPS. he represents me, and I will make sure i do not vote for him ever.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 15:12
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
You must have linked to the wrong bill, because the bill you linked to doesn't say what you say it says.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 14:19
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Anonymous wrote:Yes that is exactly what they are doing trying to defund schools to boost developer profits. This is absurd.
It is easily one of the more ridiculous things they’ve proposed.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 14:13
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Yes that is exactly what they are doing trying to defund schools to boost developer profits. This is absurd.
Anonymous
09/06/2024 14:06
Subject: MoCo Giving School Money to Developers?
Andrew Friedson is sponsoring a bill that would use state school construction money to reduce tax rates for housing developers. In the bill, the impact tax owed by developers would be reduced by the amount of state aid that went toward school construction in previous years, meaning that the county would be using state aid to reduce taxes paid by developers instead of using it to build schools.
This tax cut would come on the heels of tax cuts in 2020 and 2023, which Friedson also strongly supported. The previous tax cuts contributed to falling impact tax revenue and shortfalls in the MCPS construction budget that forced cuts to the Woodward project and delays in renovations at Damascus and Magruder.
The latest proposal has strong support from land use attorneys who have been among Friedson’s biggest donors. Previous tax cut proposals favoring developers have passed the council unanimously or nearly unanimously even though Planning has failed to demonstrate that they were effective in causing housing prices to fall or construction to increase.
So much for prioritizing education.
You can read the bill here (Sec. 52-55(d)(3)):
https://montgomerycountymd.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=169&event_id=16241&meta_id=183002
This tax cut would come on the heels of tax cuts in 2020 and 2023, which Friedson also strongly supported. The previous tax cuts contributed to falling impact tax revenue and shortfalls in the MCPS construction budget that forced cuts to the Woodward project and delays in renovations at Damascus and Magruder.
The latest proposal has strong support from land use attorneys who have been among Friedson’s biggest donors. Previous tax cut proposals favoring developers have passed the council unanimously or nearly unanimously even though Planning has failed to demonstrate that they were effective in causing housing prices to fall or construction to increase.
So much for prioritizing education.
You can read the bill here (Sec. 52-55(d)(3)):
https://montgomerycountymd.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=169&event_id=16241&meta_id=183002