Posted on 11/05/2021 5:39:47 AM PDT by rktman
One third of Montgomery County, Maryland, is made up of single family home neighborhoods where families have porches and yards for gathering. But if the Thrive Montgomery 2050 plan is put into place by the Montgomery County City Council by the end of the year, residents could see those neighborhoods transformed with the introduction of multi-unit housing.
The DCist reported:
But a foundational policy outlined in the plan — a proposal to open up some single-family neighborhoods to a mix of housing types, such as duplexes and triplexes — has ignited furious opposition. Neighborhood associations and homeowners have published op-eds, approved resolutions, started petitions, waged comment wars on social media and online forums, and submitted public testimony raising alarm about what they believe “upzoning” could do to their neighborhoods. Some worry the plan will raise property taxes and worsen traffic congestion; others spread unfounded rumors about a ‘social engineering’ plot to wipe out single-family homes and replace them with low-income apartments.
The DCist, because it is part of the left-wing tax-payer funded National Public Radio (NPR), accused opponents of the plan of spreading disinformation about it, including County Executive Marc Elrich, who “warned that adopting Thrive would give lawmakers carte blanche to phase out single-family zoning and set off a storm of new, expensive development countywide.”
But a closer look at the plan reveals that it embraces the narrative the single family neighborhoods are inherently racist and that to create “equity” requires giving access to them through the installation of affordable housing, mostly in the form of apartment buildings.
The plan also mentions the need to address climate change 21 times.
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“Montgomery County City Council”
I wonder where they live?
Got to dilute red areas
Probably not anywhere near the, uh, less desirable areas. Kinda like mad max waters.
Montgomery County hasn’t been red for a long time. The place is full of DC apparatchiks.
Start with the neighborhoods where the leftist elitists and ‘RAT politicians live.
Trump warned them, they wanted Joe.......well, they got Joe and all that came with him. Now they have to fight like crazy and there is no guarantee they could win.
Was Montgomery County MD ever red?
These issues can be resolved by moving the work place further out. Why is it that business think they have to be located in densely populated areas? Move half of the government offices out to the fringes. Workers will then move away from the cities. Also the statement about affordable housing...if I tried to rent my house the payment would go up by at least 30%. Maybe the issue isn’t affordability but lack of credit or poor credit history on the part of the prospective homeowner. Also not everyone needs a 3500 square foot house with an acre yard. I read horror stories where people purchased expensive home that take 70% of their income. Housing is affordable in most areas of this country.
Likely not. Maybe a little bit 40 or more years ago?
Spiro Agnew was from Maryland after all.
New military-age Illegals have got to live somewhere.
(Especially maids and lawn maintenance jobs to operate gasoline-powered leafblowers).
Eventually the eastern county neighborhood got a park adjacent to it.
I think Martha’s Vineyard is a great place to begin this type of housing. Build several and then give it a couple years to see how it works out. Low income housing in that area would help prove that they truly believe in the compassion they like to stake claim to.
That may be what happened to Cobb County, Georgia, which went from solidly red to purple/blue over the past 20 years or so. Development took off, and apartment building did as well. You can pack hundreds of Dems into an apartment complex, while single family homes or townhomes on the same tract of land will not house nearly as many people.
IOW, bringing your neighbor Kolumbia to you.
Surprised Monty hasn’t already pulled this. To hear from Howard Co, you’d think this is a perfectly fine idea. And indeed the liberals here in St. James of Rouse’s vision of Columbia are still in denial. They bury stories of crime in their “integrated” Section 8 areas and couch everything in “isn’t it wonderful here where we have diversity”! It’s one of the reasons “village centers” have died over the decades since this planned nonsense started.
I guess the limo libs in Monty Co didn’t fully embrace this integral concept yet. Have fun!
ROFLMAO.
Monty Co is a limo-lib county living off the largesse of DC. All the government-loving employees go there.
People talk about Northern VA now, but Monty in MD has been this way for much longer. VA is protected well by that river Potomac.
I vote they start in Chevy Chase Village and then move on to Potomac.
If they put the illegals in the elitist neighborhoods then they won’t need to drive to work.
That is a given in Monty Co.
They are limo libs who bleat about BS diversity and tear down Confederate statues all the time. They’ve already welcomed illegals galore.
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