Anonymous wrote:NIMBYs in this thread: "This housing is not really affordable for [INSERT GROUP HERE THAT I DON'T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT]"

State: "Ok, let's raise your taxes to subsidize these units".

NIMBYs: "No not like that! Something Something evil developer profits!!!11!!"

Geniuses at work people.

Lmao, speaking of genius, why should they be forced to subsidize housing in their SFH neighborhood where they don’t want multifamily homes in the first place?

It is so hilarious to me that you think you’ve made some point like a big boy.

***NIMBYs^^^***

The number of YIMBYs who would support a new law to mandate that 20% of the SFHs in their neighborhood be limited to poor folks only: 0.

Interesting. I wonder why?

NIMBYs in this thread: "This housing is not really affordable for [INSERT GROUP HERE THAT I DON'T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT]"

State: "Ok, let's raise your taxes to subsidize these units".

NIMBYs: "No not like that! Something Something evil developer profits!!!11!!"

Geniuses at work people.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://open.substack.com/pub/deepleft/p/its-not-a-housing-shortage-and-yimbys?r=3eqsy3&utm_medium=ios

I'm not in favor of this proposal, but what this person (with the clear agenda) is saying doesn't really apply here because this proposal provides 0 truly affordable housing. It's almost all market-rate housing. This entire proposal is a developer scam.

I could live in these new houses? Why do you want to exclude people like me in your neighborhood?

I'll wait.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As expected, they're focusing on closer-in Silver Spring, following up the AHS/More Housing Now push with the University Boulevard plan. Same ignoring the objections of affected area residents, the clear majority of whom don't want what Councilmembers Andrew Friedson, Kate Stewart, Natali Fani-González, Evan Glass & Co., along with their put-there-to-ram-these-things-through Planning Board Chair, Artie Harris, are shoving down the County's throat.

Gotta keep that donor-developer gravy train rolling...

The UB plan is a mess. The residents should at least start petitioning for zoned street parking.

Planning is a cauldron of group think. None of its ideas get tested hard internally or by the planning board. The work is about what you would expect from that kind of environment.

Anonymous wrote:As expected, they're focusing on closer-in Silver Spring, following up the AHS/More Housing Now push with the University Boulevard plan. Same ignoring the objections of affected area residents, the clear majority of whom don't want what Councilmembers Andrew Friedson, Kate Stewart, Natali Fani-González, Evan Glass & Co., along with their put-there-to-ram-these-things-through Planning Board Chair, Artie Harris, are shoving down the County's throat.

Gotta keep that donor-developer gravy train rolling...

The UB plan is a mess. The residents should at least start petitioning for zoned street parking.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As expected, they're focusing on closer-in Silver Spring, following up the AHS/More Housing Now push with the University Boulevard plan. Same ignoring the objections of affected area residents, the clear majority of whom don't want what Councilmembers Andrew Friedson, Kate Stewart, Natali Fani-González, Evan Glass & Co., along with their put-there-to-ram-these-things-through Planning Board Chair, Artie Harris, are shoving down the County's throat.

Gotta keep that donor-developer gravy train rolling...

What’s been most remarkable through the whole process is the ready admission that the area needs a lot of infrastructure improvements to support this and the corresponding admission that there are no plans and no money to actually make them. If we want growth we need the infrastructure to support it. Developers like to pretend that we don’t need infrastructure for growth so that no one asks them to pony up, and that’s to be expected because no one likes paying taxes. But it’s remarkable to see 9 of the 11 council members, all Democrats, go along with it. This council and the one before it have presided over a stunning disinvestment in public infrastructure because they want land speculators to make more money. They are rewarding people who are literally cashing out of this county at the expense of people who build, live, and work here.

Who says we don't need infrastructure? Of course we do. But those are shared resources whose cost should be shared, not just dumped on the younger generation.

Friedson talks about tax revenue from new apartment projects as if it’s all windfall all the time, so him for one.

If the county lacks dedicated revenue streams for infrastructure from recordation or other impact fees, then it borrows money to pay for these things. Who do you think is going to repay the bonds? It’s not the old people who are going to be dead before the debt is paid, and it’s not the wealthy land speculators who cashed out. It’s the younger generation.

The thing about these lowering or eliminating these fees or creating tax abatements is that it mostly benefits existing land owners (mostly old people). When the impact fees decrease or the taxes are forgiven for 20 years, the land becomes more valuable so the people who actually build things have to pay more for the land. The younger generation gets stuck with higher debt service costs because a majority of the council is prioritizing land speculators’ profits over infrastructure.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As expected, they're focusing on closer-in Silver Spring, following up the AHS/More Housing Now push with the University Boulevard plan. Same ignoring the objections of affected area residents, the clear majority of whom don't want what Councilmembers Andrew Friedson, Kate Stewart, Natali Fani-González, Evan Glass & Co., along with their put-there-to-ram-these-things-through Planning Board Chair, Artie Harris, are shoving down the County's throat.

Gotta keep that donor-developer gravy train rolling...

What’s been most remarkable through the whole process is the ready admission that the area needs a lot of infrastructure improvements to support this and the corresponding admission that there are no plans and no money to actually make them. If we want growth we need the infrastructure to support it. Developers like to pretend that we don’t need infrastructure for growth so that no one asks them to pony up, and that’s to be expected because no one likes paying taxes. But it’s remarkable to see 9 of the 11 council members, all Democrats, go along with it. This council and the one before it have presided over a stunning disinvestment in public infrastructure because they want land speculators to make more money. They are rewarding people who are literally cashing out of this county at the expense of people who build, live, and work here.

Who says we don't need infrastructure? Of course we do. But those are shared resources whose cost should be shared, not just dumped on the younger generation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As expected, they're focusing on closer-in Silver Spring, following up the AHS/More Housing Now push with the University Boulevard plan. Same ignoring the objections of affected area residents, the clear majority of whom don't want what Councilmembers Andrew Friedson, Kate Stewart, Natali Fani-González, Evan Glass & Co., along with their put-there-to-ram-these-things-through Planning Board Chair, Artie Harris, are shoving down the County's throat.

Gotta keep that donor-developer gravy train rolling...

What’s been most remarkable through the whole process is the ready admission that the area needs a lot of infrastructure improvements to support this and the corresponding admission that there are no plans and no money to actually make them. If we want growth we need the infrastructure to support it. Developers like to pretend that we don’t need infrastructure for growth so that no one asks them to pony up, and that’s to be expected because no one likes paying taxes. But it’s remarkable to see 9 of the 11 council members, all Democrats, go along with it. This council and the one before it have presided over a stunning disinvestment in public infrastructure because they want land speculators to make more money. They are rewarding people who are literally cashing out of this county at the expense of people who build, live, and work here.

PEPCO's grid is overloaded and we have no school capacity in the downcounty. Hope those developers will cough up some money for this - LOL.

They all played SimCity but forgot the part where nothing gets built if the transportation and utilities are overwhelmed and the businesses moved away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As expected, they're focusing on closer-in Silver Spring, following up the AHS/More Housing Now push with the University Boulevard plan. Same ignoring the objections of affected area residents, the clear majority of whom don't want what Councilmembers Andrew Friedson, Kate Stewart, Natali Fani-González, Evan Glass & Co., along with their put-there-to-ram-these-things-through Planning Board Chair, Artie Harris, are shoving down the County's throat.

Gotta keep that donor-developer gravy train rolling...

What’s been most remarkable through the whole process is the ready admission that the area needs a lot of infrastructure improvements to support this and the corresponding admission that there are no plans and no money to actually make them. If we want growth we need the infrastructure to support it. Developers like to pretend that we don’t need infrastructure for growth so that no one asks them to pony up, and that’s to be expected because no one likes paying taxes. But it’s remarkable to see 9 of the 11 council members, all Democrats, go along with it. This council and the one before it have presided over a stunning disinvestment in public infrastructure because they want land speculators to make more money. They are rewarding people who are literally cashing out of this county at the expense of people who build, live, and work here.

PEPCO's grid is overloaded and we have no school capacity in the downcounty. Hope those developers will cough up some money for this - LOL.

Anonymous wrote:As expected, they're focusing on closer-in Silver Spring, following up the AHS/More Housing Now push with the University Boulevard plan. Same ignoring the objections of affected area residents, the clear majority of whom don't want what Councilmembers Andrew Friedson, Kate Stewart, Natali Fani-González, Evan Glass & Co., along with their put-there-to-ram-these-things-through Planning Board Chair, Artie Harris, are shoving down the County's throat.

Gotta keep that donor-developer gravy train rolling...

What’s been most remarkable through the whole process is the ready admission that the area needs a lot of infrastructure improvements to support this and the corresponding admission that there are no plans and no money to actually make them. If we want growth we need the infrastructure to support it. Developers like to pretend that we don’t need infrastructure for growth so that no one asks them to pony up, and that’s to be expected because no one likes paying taxes. But it’s remarkable to see 9 of the 11 council members, all Democrats, go along with it. This council and the one before it have presided over a stunning disinvestment in public infrastructure because they want land speculators to make more money. They are rewarding people who are literally cashing out of this county at the expense of people who build, live, and work here.

As expected, they're focusing on closer-in Silver Spring, following up the AHS/More Housing Now push with the University Boulevard plan. Same ignoring the objections of affected area residents, the clear majority of whom don't want what Councilmembers Andrew Friedson, Kate Stewart, Natali Fani-González, Evan Glass & Co., along with their put-there-to-ram-these-things-through Planning Board Chair, Artie Harris, are shoving down the County's throat.

Gotta keep that donor-developer gravy train rolling...

Anonymous wrote:https://open.substack.com/pub/deepleft/p/its-not-a-housing-shortage-and-yimbys?r=3eqsy3&utm_medium=ios

I'm not in favor of this proposal, but what this person (with the clear agenda) is saying doesn't really apply here because this proposal provides 0 truly affordable housing. It's almost all market-rate housing. This entire proposal is a developer scam.

Anonymous wrote:https://open.substack.com/pub/deepleft/p/its-not-a-housing-shortage-and-yimbys?r=3eqsy3&utm_medium=ios

This article does a great job at explaining why YIMBY policies will fail to do most of the things they claim to do. Dems are really shooting themselves in the foot by doubling down on an ivory tower campaign about “abundance”. American voters will become significantly more conservative in response to an uptick of crime and disorderly behavior in their communities.