"NO DEVELOPER

INFLUENCE?:"

PART DEUX

When we last heard from Montgomery County Councilmember Marc "No Developer Influence" Elrich, he was proposing a tax cut for developers. Okay...

Now the Gazette is crediting Mr. Elrich as one of the biggest supporters of one of the biggest developer projects in the county: the new White Flint.

The lowball, overly conservative numbers say that this project will create 9,800 new housing units, and 6 million square feet of commercial space. And best of all, it will do all that while increasing congestion on 355 and other roads, and crowding classrooms. All of this construction is great for the environment as well! Thanks to politicians in Annapolis, stormwater runoff will be allowed, and in fact, encouraged!!!

Marc "No Developer Influence" Elrich cannot wait, and neither can his developer-beholden colleagues, whose campaign accounts are filled to the brim with developer dollar$.

Every single councilmember has endorsed the plan. And endorsed the zoning change to mixed use, without which this development would have been illegal. So that "developer influence" really paid off, didn't it!!!

Importantly, you the voter now know that every incumbent on the ballot supported this traffic jamming, classroom crowding sector plan. Your choice in November will be clear.

Let Marc "No Developer Influence" Elrich tell you about his concerns in his own words, with no developer influence on those words!!!:

"I think the bigge$t i$$ues got re$olved."

Well, the article makes it sound that way. In fact, the building of a new school and MARC station to support even a fraction of this development are anything but resolved.

But with enough "developer influence," you might $tart to believe ju$t about anything!!!

A tax cut for developers, but tax increases for you, including 8% Property Tax increase last year, and now a new whopper of an energy tax on the council's agenda.

No developer influence, but how about some old-fashioned voter influence at the polls this November?