Your interest group has no business trying to harm our neighborhoods that none of you even live in or displace our neighbors that you don’t even see or care about on a day to day basis.

You don’t even live here.

Maybe a start would be creating plans that the community actually supports? Public buy-in goes a long way. The Planning Board's approach on University Blvd. Corridor has been to ignore and strongarm the community to the maximum possible extent.

The University Blvd. corridor is already a model for diversity and racial inclusion. The Council’s Racial Equity impact statement confirms what residents have been trying to tell you and you have ignored. The plan YOU passed is likely to have a displacement effect on our community.

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The Council’s own RESJ Impact confirms what opponents of the University Blvd. Corridor Plan have been saying for awhile. The Plan will increases displacement and makes little sense for our neighborhoods. @natalifg.bsky.social @willjawando.bsky.social
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It’s time to sunset Montgomery County’s rent stabilization law. The county’s own data shows it has decimated multifamily housing construction more than any other policy.

Where we differ is I think residents have a right to self government and you seem to think that people whose ideas you happen to like should be able to dictate what happens in neighborhoods they don’t live in and dont even really see or care about day to day.

As an example, you don't live here, so you shouldn't really have a say in my neighborhood, even if you think your ideas are fantastic. I don't live where you live, so what I say shouldn't be prioritized in what happens to your neighborhood. That's pretty fundamental and basic to local government.

*Residents* should be prioritized. Whether short or long term residents is immaterial. Just residents. Yes, non-residents who don't even live here and aren't affected by the proposed changes should not be prioritized.

You don't live on the Corridor.

The article is pure projection. No one has ever said recent residents on the Corridor shouldn't have a say, and that it's any less valid. But it's residents who actually LIVE on the corridor whose voices should be prioritized over nonresidents. That should be obvious.

County planners recommend reining in 'rent stabilization' In response to developers' concerns of rising costs and costly local policies, Montgomery County planners have recommended that elected officials change the law capping annual rent increases.

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Thank you @willjawando.bsky.social for your thoughtful response at the CE candidates forum on the University Blvd. Corridor Plan and acknowledging that residents have some valid concerns with the plan.

This article gives the false impression that supporters of the plan are equivalent to those that oppose it. The public record is clear that those that oppose this plan vastly outnumber supporters, and it’s not close.

All of this is going to be moot anyway because we all know the Council is just going to go along with the Board anyway.

You don’t live in the directly affected neighborhoods, like most of the supporters of the plan. Impacted residents oppose the plan in far greater numbers than support it. The public record is clear on that. If the Board did a better job, there could anre elements of the plan the community supports.

Nothing’s perfect, but they’re far more representative of the views of the community than paid advocates like GGwash. Lots of individuals from all over testified too. Watch the public hearings and tell
me some of those concerns aren’t valid.
The Board just did a lousy job on this Plan.

The people speaking against the plan are far more representative of the community than groups like GGWash. Every single neighborhood association up and down the corridor opposes it. Regular neighbors on their own time and dime (unlike GGWash) coming out is about as grassroots as it gets.

yes roads need to be maintained and in good repair. This is the same government you trust to somehow also build and maintain new complicated infrastructure on the University as proposed in the Corridor plan? Most of which has zero to do with safety. Makes little sense To me.

Was it built in 1989?

There is almost no area that is more housing restrictionist or has built less housing over the last few decades than TKPK.

Unless something is * intended * it is by definition an accident.

Unless it’s intended, it’s an accident By definition.

Pretty gross using a horrible tragedy to shoehorn unrelated policy goals.

Says the guy living in TKPK.

A traffic collision is by definition an accident.

Not true. It creates a cut through that is clearly going to become another major route for traffic.

All the more reason to oppose the plan. I don’t want to see speeding on narrow neighborhood streets from frustrated drivers avoiding traffic gridlock caused by this plan.

Accidents on University, which obviously happen, is a non-sequitur for almost all of the proposed changes in the Corridor Plan. That is why the state is conducting the Pedestrian Safety Action Plan. Until that study is complete, the Corridor Plan is premature.