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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

Mansions help a small number of rich people, while denser units provide more affordable housing to a larger number of people, putting less burden on roads north of the area.

No, what you’re doing is pushing people who want to own homes further north, so you end up with the same burden on roads near UB and more burden north of the area. In the best realistic case, you’ll get some apartments produced near UB but at the expense of less production in established dense areas.

There’s no question the new zoning will make the land near UB more expensive. If your plan makes land more expensive, you’re not for cheaper housing. You’re just for more expensive land.

I think it land value will get pretty complicated. Areas with the biggest increases will have lots of developable land, meaning single family homes with the biggest increase in zoning and the least non-land value. The people that will get most screwed will be adjacent or near zoning change single-family homeowners that have put a great deal of money into their current homes. The people that can sell to develop will take their money and run to somewhere nicer and current homeowners will be stuck with new density and new traffic and new school overcrowding and will likely see much less growth and property value over time.

But at least we got a magic bus to transport everyone around lmao.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

Mansions help a small number of rich people, while denser units provide more affordable housing to a larger number of people, putting less burden on roads north of the area.

No, what you’re doing is pushing people who want to own homes further north, so you end up with the same burden on roads near UB and more burden north of the area. In the best realistic case, you’ll get some apartments produced near UB but at the expense of less production in established dense areas.

There’s no question the new zoning will make the land near UB more expensive. If your plan makes land more expensive, you’re not for cheaper housing. You’re just for more expensive land.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

Mansions help a small number of rich people, while denser units provide more affordable housing to a larger number of people, putting less burden on roads north of the area.

No, what you’re doing is pushing people who want to own homes further north, so you end up with the same burden on roads near UB and more burden north of the area. In the best realistic case, you’ll get some apartments produced near UB but at the expense of less production in established dense areas.

There’s no question the new zoning will make the land near UB more expensive. If your plan makes land more expensive, you’re not for cheaper housing. You’re just for more expensive land.

Does the county have any plans for the dead areas on 29 north of Tech Rd./ICC entrance? Seems like there’s a ton of empty space there and plenty of Metrobus options.

Where? Tech Rd/White Oak has a big development going in.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

Mansions help a small number of rich people, while denser units provide more affordable housing to a larger number of people, putting less burden on roads north of the area.

No, what you’re doing is pushing people who want to own homes further north, so you end up with the same burden on roads near UB and more burden north of the area. In the best realistic case, you’ll get some apartments produced near UB but at the expense of less production in established dense areas.

There’s no question the new zoning will make the land near UB more expensive. If your plan makes land more expensive, you’re not for cheaper housing. You’re just for more expensive land.

Does the county have any plans for the dead areas on 29 north of Tech Rd./ICC entrance? Seems like there’s a ton of empty space there and plenty of Metrobus options.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

Mansions help a small number of rich people, while denser units provide more affordable housing to a larger number of people, putting less burden on roads north of the area.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

Mansions help a small number of rich people, while denser units provide more affordable housing to a larger number of people, putting less burden on roads north of the area.

No, what you’re doing is pushing people who want to own homes further north, so you end up with the same burden on roads near UB and more burden north of the area. In the best realistic case, you’ll get some apartments produced near UB but at the expense of less production in established dense areas.

There’s no question the new zoning will make the land near UB more expensive. If your plan makes land more expensive, you’re not for cheaper housing. You’re just for more expensive land.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

Mansions help a small number of rich people, while denser units provide more affordable housing to a larger number of people, putting less burden on roads north of the area.

No, what you’re doing is pushing people who want to own homes further north, so you end up with the same burden on roads near UB and more burden north of the area. In the best realistic case, you’ll get some apartments produced near UB but at the expense of less production in established dense areas.

There’s no question the new zoning will make the land near UB more expensive. If your plan makes land more expensive, you’re not for cheaper housing. You’re just for more expensive land.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

Mansions help a small number of rich people, while denser units provide more affordable housing to a larger number of people, putting less burden on roads north of the area.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

That’s dumb. Your logic is dumb.

Either you are hopelessly altruistic or totally self-serving, depending on where you are on the economic scale.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

The RESJ report says this will have a negative impact on Black and Latino homeowners in the area and proponents are just like, well….🫠

This is an area with higher than average minority home ownership rates, but who cares when you can sell people shitty townhomes and condos with exorbitant HOA fees?

It doesn’t have to be an either/or scenario. There are no Bethesda-style mansions coming to the University Blvd. corridor around Woodmoor/Four Corners/Kemp Mill. Do the new builds constructed on the empty parcels at University and Burnett look anything like McMansions? Or the newer cul-de-sac off Dennis? No, they’re pretty reasonable as far as new builds go.

Overpriced townhomes with an Orange Theory, a slop bowl joint, a mattress store, and a vape shop on the ground level is a literal hellscape of late-stage capitalism. Not sure why this is a YIMBY goal. There will be no artisanal locally owned businesses that actually invest dollars back into the community. The rent will be too high for that. Just more fast casual franchise crap, which Woodmoor shopping center already has enough of.

A white person buying a house also reduces "Black and Latino" homeownership. Should we ban that? Why not?

(Hint: when you view the economy as zero-sum you get stuck in these silly arguments that you can't solve, because you didn't take Econ 101)

No we shouldn’t ban that because when a person (regardless of race) buys a house it removes that buyer from the market and lets other houses trickle down.

Assuming no migration, holding a bunch of other things constant, so much so that if you wait long enough you’ve simplified the model until even the YImBYs can understand it.

Thanks for seeing what I did there, simplifying a model to the point where it has neither explanatory nor predictive value and bears little resemblance to real economics.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?

OK, but you'd be wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

The RESJ report says this will have a negative impact on Black and Latino homeowners in the area and proponents are just like, well….🫠

This is an area with higher than average minority home ownership rates, but who cares when you can sell people shitty townhomes and condos with exorbitant HOA fees?

It doesn’t have to be an either/or scenario. There are no Bethesda-style mansions coming to the University Blvd. corridor around Woodmoor/Four Corners/Kemp Mill. Do the new builds constructed on the empty parcels at University and Burnett look anything like McMansions? Or the newer cul-de-sac off Dennis? No, they’re pretty reasonable as far as new builds go.

Overpriced townhomes with an Orange Theory, a slop bowl joint, a mattress store, and a vape shop on the ground level is a literal hellscape of late-stage capitalism. Not sure why this is a YIMBY goal. There will be no artisanal locally owned businesses that actually invest dollars back into the community. The rent will be too high for that. Just more fast casual franchise crap, which Woodmoor shopping center already has enough of.

A white person buying a house also reduces "Black and Latino" homeownership. Should we ban that? Why not?

(Hint: when you view the economy as zero-sum you get stuck in these silly arguments that you can't solve, because you didn't take Econ 101)

No we shouldn’t ban that because when a person (regardless of race) buys a house it removes that buyer from the market and lets other houses trickle down.

Assuming no migration, holding a bunch of other things constant, so much so that if you wait long enough you’ve simplified the model until even the YImBYs can understand it.

Thanks for seeing what I did there, simplifying a model to the point where it has neither explanatory nor predictive value and bears little resemblance to real economics.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

The RESJ report says this will have a negative impact on Black and Latino homeowners in the area and proponents are just like, well….🫠

This is an area with higher than average minority home ownership rates, but who cares when you can sell people shitty townhomes and condos with exorbitant HOA fees?

It doesn’t have to be an either/or scenario. There are no Bethesda-style mansions coming to the University Blvd. corridor around Woodmoor/Four Corners/Kemp Mill. Do the new builds constructed on the empty parcels at University and Burnett look anything like McMansions? Or the newer cul-de-sac off Dennis? No, they’re pretty reasonable as far as new builds go.

Overpriced townhomes with an Orange Theory, a slop bowl joint, a mattress store, and a vape shop on the ground level is a literal hellscape of late-stage capitalism. Not sure why this is a YIMBY goal. There will be no artisanal locally owned businesses that actually invest dollars back into the community. The rent will be too high for that. Just more fast casual franchise crap, which Woodmoor shopping center already has enough of.

A white person buying a house also reduces "Black and Latino" homeownership. Should we ban that? Why not?

(Hint: when you view the economy as zero-sum you get stuck in these silly arguments that you can't solve, because you didn't take Econ 101)

No we shouldn’t ban that because when a person (regardless of race) buys a house it removes that buyer from the market and lets other houses trickle down.

Assuming no migration, holding a bunch of other things constant, so much so that if you wait long enough you’ve simplified the model until even the YImBYs can understand it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you to Mink, Jawando, and Katz for voting against the UBCP plan. Not that it will mean anything in the long run.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/02/divided-county-council-likely-to-pass-university-boulevard-corridor-plan/

I've been seeing a lot of comments on social media supporting Friedson for county executive. Are these bot posts? Developer shills? People cannot be serious about this guy.

Ah yes, the families that want more houses and apartments are all "developer shills".

You people and your silly conspiracy theories are no better than trump.

This is nothing but gentrification in disguise, no matter how much they try to Trojan horse it in progressive bona fides.

I look forward to Friedson and Fani-Gonzalez getting soundly defeated in the next election.

Gentrification will happen either way. Do you want Bethesda-style mansions or vaguely affordable townhomes?

If I have to pick one, definitely mansions. Is this a real question?