Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So how does the "density at the metro" relate to crime and quality of life issues? When you mix housing in with urban social and business spots, you get a lot of issues associated with drinking, drugs, homelessness, etc. Right where you live. And police really aren't allowed to enforce those low-level crimes anymore. How does Thrive address that? A lot of the crime Silver Spring, Wheaton, and Bethesda deal with, for example, is perpetrated by people coming in from DC.....on the metro.
Oh really
Anonymous wrote:So how does the "density at the metro" relate to crime and quality of life issues? When you mix housing in with urban social and business spots, you get a lot of issues associated with drinking, drugs, homelessness, etc. Right where you live. And police really aren't allowed to enforce those low-level crimes anymore. How does Thrive address that? A lot of the crime Silver Spring, Wheaton, and Bethesda deal with, for example, is perpetrated by people coming in from DC.....on the metro.
Anonymous wrote:Heh, maybe this will be good..
I can sell my SFH for millions of dollars to some developer so that can tear my home down and build a giant apartment complex. Grab the cash and get the hell out of the county.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why can't we keep our SFHs? If there's nowhere for the poors to live then they can just pitch a tent.
Well, OK I'd call the police and then throw away their stuff but other than that, I see no reason for building new housing.
I mean, come on! I already have a home and don't need or want more. Well, unless I want to buy a vacation home.
Yeesh, communists.
How about you try working hard, getting an education, and saving money for once in your life instead of trying to take what other have worked so hard for?
If I can't have what they have, destroy!
MoCo is toast. People dream of getting a Tokyo when we will likely get a Rio instead due the sheer incompetence of the county govt.
Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP about it being a horrible plan, but you forgot about King Casey's plan to indoctrinate our youth - he wants to include his disastrous Planning Board curriculum in MCPS so that students will understand the value of high density apartments/condos with retail on the bottom (staffed by emoyees who cannot afford to live in the condos above them).
A disaster for the aready sinking ship that is Montgomery County.
Anonymous wrote:Why can't we keep our SFHs? If there's nowhere for the poors to live then they can just pitch a tent.
Well, OK I'd call the police and then throw away their stuff but other than that, I see no reason for building new housing.
I mean, come on! I already have a home and don't need or want more. Well, unless I want to buy a vacation home.
Yeesh, communists.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This will be a disaster. I really wish they'd just be honest - it is just a proposal to obtain, raze, and destroy SFHs and neighborhoods with SFHs. It's the progressive dream.
Nevermind the fact that roads won't be able to handle all of the traffic and there are almost zero plans for addressing school capacity. MoCo is on its death bed. The progressives are after your homes and want to tear it down. Nothing like working hard and saving to buy a house only to have the home next to you replaced by a gigantic apartment complex with residents too cheap to pay for parking, so they'll all start parking 200 cars on the street outside your home. This is a utopian nightmare. Hopefully we will be out of the county early enough to sell our home to a sucker who won't be aware of Thrive 2050 plans. Progress means turning the entire county into a concrete jungle like Tokyo, except we all know we will get the crappy dollar store version of Tokyo instead of the high quality real thing.
Can you at least link what you're talking about?
I'm truly shocked at how few MoCo residents know that Thrive 2050 even exists, given the fact that they are coming after all of our homes:
https://montgomeryplanning.org/planning/master-plan-list/general-plans/thrive-montgomery-2050/
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2021/20210617/testimony/testimony50-DonnaSavage.pdf
I live in the City of Rockville. MoCo planning doesn't apply to the city. I am very familiar with Rockville's 2040 master plan though.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This will be a disaster. I really wish they'd just be honest - it is just a proposal to obtain, raze, and destroy SFHs and neighborhoods with SFHs. It's the progressive dream.
Nevermind the fact that roads won't be able to handle all of the traffic and there are almost zero plans for addressing school capacity. MoCo is on its death bed. The progressives are after your homes and want to tear it down. Nothing like working hard and saving to buy a house only to have the home next to you replaced by a gigantic apartment complex with residents too cheap to pay for parking, so they'll all start parking 200 cars on the street outside your home. This is a utopian nightmare. Hopefully we will be out of the county early enough to sell our home to a sucker who won't be aware of Thrive 2050 plans. Progress means turning the entire county into a concrete jungle like Tokyo, except we all know we will get the crappy dollar store version of Tokyo instead of the high quality real thing.
Can you at least link what you're talking about?
I'm truly shocked at how few MoCo residents know that Thrive 2050 even exists, given the fact that they are coming after all of our homes:
https://montgomeryplanning.org/planning/master-plan-list/general-plans/thrive-montgomery-2050/
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/COUNCIL/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2021/20210617/testimony/testimony50-DonnaSavage.pdf
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This will be a disaster. I really wish they'd just be honest - it is just a proposal to obtain, raze, and destroy SFHs and neighborhoods with SFHs. It's the progressive dream.
Nevermind the fact that roads won't be able to handle all of the traffic and there are almost zero plans for addressing school capacity. MoCo is on its death bed. The progressives are after your homes and want to tear it down. Nothing like working hard and saving to buy a house only to have the home next to you replaced by a gigantic apartment complex with residents too cheap to pay for parking, so they'll all start parking 200 cars on the street outside your home. This is a utopian nightmare. Hopefully we will be out of the county early enough to sell our home to a sucker who won't be aware of Thrive 2050 plans. Progress means turning the entire county into a concrete jungle like Tokyo, except we all know we will get the crappy dollar store version of Tokyo instead of the high quality real thing.
Can you at least link what you're talking about?
Anonymous wrote:This will be a disaster. I really wish they'd just be honest - it is just a proposal to obtain, raze, and destroy SFHs and neighborhoods with SFHs. It's the progressive dream.
Nevermind the fact that roads won't be able to handle all of the traffic and there are almost zero plans for addressing school capacity. MoCo is on its death bed. The progressives are after your homes and want to tear it down. Nothing like working hard and saving to buy a house only to have the home next to you replaced by a gigantic apartment complex with residents too cheap to pay for parking, so they'll all start parking 200 cars on the street outside your home. This is a utopian nightmare. Hopefully we will be out of the county early enough to sell our home to a sucker who won't be aware of Thrive 2050 plans. Progress means turning the entire county into a concrete jungle like Tokyo, except we all know we will get the crappy dollar store version of Tokyo instead of the high quality real thing.