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Two Howard Counties - How Rapid Growth Can Increase Inequality

Rick Kohn

We need to ensure stronger adequate public facilities ordinance standards (APFO) are adopted and better moderate and low income housing policies are implemented such that the county begins rolling back what the current standards have begun to create - two Howard Counties. One where lower income families live and another where high income families live.

We need to consider the impacts of housing projects on potential economic integration before we approve these projects, and we cannot allow our school districts to be divided by income.

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categories School Redistricting, HCPSS
tags apfo, mihu, HoCoPolitics, HoCo, HCPSS, redistricting

I do not Support CR111-2017 and the TIF

Hiruy Hadgu

The TOD seems more like a Trojan horse to bring in more development than to alleviate transportation problems. It boggles the mind to say “we need a TOD because we want to make transit easier, but to do that, we will add more residential units that will contribute to additional congestion.” Fast-paced development constrains resources and leads to poor quality of life; unless the attendant costs are mitigated. I do not support CR111-2017 and the TIF.

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categories APFO, HCPSS, TIF
tags TIF, redistricting, laurel park station, CR111-2017, Howard County, HoCo, HoCoPolitics, HCPSS, County Council