tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post8853528567964100841..comments2024-03-29T04:57:59.779-07:00Comments on Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row: Residents furious as WMAL tower site preliminary plan reaches Planning Board ThusdayRobert Dyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975969463714952623noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-65916711109463367272017-12-23T09:53:14.913-08:002017-12-23T09:53:14.913-08:00Thank you Robert Dyer. An interesting take from so...Thank you Robert Dyer. An interesting take from some of your respondents, despite the hysteria. I understand their frustration given Bethesda's current transportation and congestion nightmare, however the only way to amend this is through forward thinking development such as this one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-63299931560411995842017-06-14T05:28:50.839-07:002017-06-14T05:28:50.839-07:00That's actually really helpful followup on you...That's actually really helpful followup on your Fortune 500 insistence. I actually really appreciate learning more about your position than just resorting to insults. Is there any published data to back that up? I don't doubt it anecdotally that sounds like a really good point. Wrolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-62331713173170284822017-06-13T23:04:00.683-07:002017-06-13T23:04:00.683-07:006:57: Aerospace, defense, and biotech corporations...6:57: Aerospace, defense, and biotech corporations also bring research and development, and manufacturing facilities. Your fantasy that Lockheed or Northrop or SpaceX are merely offices with pencil pushers is just that, a fantasy.Robert Dyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01975969463714952623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-11131767785308184252017-06-13T18:13:40.890-07:002017-06-13T18:13:40.890-07:00It's interesting to me... WJ did not want chil...It's interesting to me... WJ did not want children from the area behind White Flint Mall attending their school because of overcrowding concerns. I wonder how this is going to work out.Bethesdaguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152634772696907369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-5685641999896372252017-06-13T14:17:16.506-07:002017-06-13T14:17:16.506-07:00So are you saying paying to incentivize Fortune 50...So are you saying paying to incentivize Fortune 500 companies is a good thing or bad thing?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-68244576560161679742017-06-13T11:44:44.422-07:002017-06-13T11:44:44.422-07:007:54 AM, I disagree with you solely because I am a...7:54 AM, I disagree with you solely because I am a Robert shill account.Barwood Sucksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-27953115389564177572017-06-13T07:54:22.438-07:002017-06-13T07:54:22.438-07:00Tysons is the Corporate Center of the DMV with spo...Tysons is the Corporate Center of the DMV with spokes to Dulles, Down I-66 and across 495 to Rock Spring<br /><br />- most significant PRIVATE industry is centered there <br /><br />The Government is centered in DC/Arlington<br /><br />Downtown Bethesda has NIH and not much else.<br /><br />This distribution of business ensures that Fairfax County will continue to be the economic engine of the DMV - there isn't anything Montgomer County can do except try to coax government agencies into the county - not likely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-59544192113627281392017-06-13T07:13:15.654-07:002017-06-13T07:13:15.654-07:006:57 AM City of Rockville & MoCo paid an fortu...6:57 AM City of Rockville & MoCo paid an fortune to keep Choice Hotels HQ in the county and lure them to Rockville's Town Center.<br />They understand the importance and economic benefits of having a Fortune 500 headquarters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-27582947321201055962017-06-13T06:57:19.354-07:002017-06-13T06:57:19.354-07:00"finally getting a major employer to relocate..."finally getting a major employer to relocate here (which hasn't happened in two decades, thanks to our impotent County Council)."<br /><br />In your idiotic fixation on Fortune 500 corporate headquarters jobs, you keep ignoring the fact that such jobs comprise less than 1% of the total jobs in such companies. And as we've seen many times, they are the first to be made redundant during corporate mergers and acquisitions. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-10185575236814656102017-06-13T06:49:20.248-07:002017-06-13T06:49:20.248-07:0010:08: How many corporate executives have said the...10:08: How many corporate executives have said they would relocate here if there was a second river crossing?G. Moneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-26843413412675081652017-06-13T06:05:12.081-07:002017-06-13T06:05:12.081-07:00I have been to Oklahoma once. When I was there, th...I have been to Oklahoma once. When I was there, there is very long stretches of highway where nobody lives. Sounds like your friend wanted to escape the loneliness ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-12941137190932377142017-06-13T05:06:50.328-07:002017-06-13T05:06:50.328-07:00Wouldn't the existing neighborhood have been d...Wouldn't the existing neighborhood have been developed as R-60? What's around the site is way less dense than the Toll Brothers project will be, so the relative burden on schools will be greater on the WMAL site.Robert Dyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01975969463714952623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-37513313814788298252017-06-13T04:37:17.240-07:002017-06-13T04:37:17.240-07:003:41 thanks for your comment, that was really info...3:41 thanks for your comment, that was really informative and rational. <br /><br />Not defending the development, but it sounds like the capacity for usage of schools would thus be the same as the houses around it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-50659981208860004302017-06-13T04:04:00.279-07:002017-06-13T04:04:00.279-07:00Perspective. A friend visiting from Oklahoma kept...Perspective. A friend visiting from Oklahoma kept mentioning that everywhere she drove there were highway exits. "Guess in DC you need lots of escape routes." ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-3380076611315012032017-06-13T03:41:45.994-07:002017-06-13T03:41:45.994-07:00WMAL was zoned for residential ~1989, decades afte...WMAL was zoned for residential ~1989, decades after the existing SFH are there. There is plenty of highway access nearby...in fact auto is the only viable means for getting around except for a few outlier situations. The problem is that the local roads are congested. Unless I missed something, the zoning is the same as the existing good (R90). Thing is, R90 ain't what it used to be. Now there is the optional methods which allows townhouses....which is fine, but the philosophy is that you have less personal property and more communal property (i.e. "open space"). The open space requirement for the optional method used to be 30%, but the developer mafia got that down to 15%. The vast majority of open space in the WMAL plan is the forest conservation areas, which can't be used by the public, minus the walking path. Oh, and the WJ cluster is way overcrowding and the plans to keep building more and more keep coming.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-77830330007157544142017-06-13T02:25:38.897-07:002017-06-13T02:25:38.897-07:00I think it was zoned to a higher density. So only ...I think it was zoned to a higher density. So only a percentage point or two higher to blame. Lol. But that's the only percentage that matters, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-1019257308106764812017-06-12T22:08:08.737-07:002017-06-12T22:08:08.737-07:005:39: You've obviously lost your wits - the nu...5:39: You've obviously lost your wits - the numbers are right from the damn study report. 24% in one direction and 25% in the other direction between Dulles and Maryland. <br /><br />5:41: It has nothing to do with a second crossing. It has to do with your false claim of easy access to the Beltway. Try telling people stuck on the roads around NIH/Walter Reed about that during rush hour, and duck!<br /><br />6:08: You're really claiming a short info blurb on the fact that the plan will be taken up has anything remotely to do with this in-depth report on resident complaints about the WMAL plan? Laughable! <br /><br />6:28: The Purple Line is only a game changer if you own property along the route to redevelop. That's the whole reason the thing was extended to New Carrollton. No corporate executive has ever said he or she would relocate here based on the Purple Line. Nobody cares.<br /><br />6:35: Highways are the biggest bang for the buck - they move the most people for the least money. The Rockville Freeway would carry more commuters per day than the entire BRT system combined.<br /><br />6:59: You may have missed in the article that the WMAL site was rezoned to a higher density than the SFH neighborhood around it. So, no, the current residents aren't to blame.<br /><br />7:00: Helpless Hans Riemer is disappointed you would say that about him!Robert Dyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01975969463714952623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-73673479756484998602017-06-12T19:00:42.920-07:002017-06-12T19:00:42.920-07:00I would not vote for him on lack of quality charac...I would not vote for him on lack of quality character in my humble opinion. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-74998395105398686712017-06-12T18:59:05.155-07:002017-06-12T18:59:05.155-07:00Wasn't this site zoned at the same time as all...Wasn't this site zoned at the same time as all the other houses around it? Wouldn't they all have the same rights then? So any existing house complaining about infrastructure and school crowding is equally to blame?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-64463531210502063062017-06-12T18:35:09.733-07:002017-06-12T18:35:09.733-07:00"That's why we were supposed to have an i..."That's why we were supposed to have an interstate connection to the downtown."<br /><br />An interstate downtown would do nothing for downtown but destroy it. Cities like Boston and San Francisco are *removing* their freeways for good reason:<br /><br />Highways are dead. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-39750499960808245782017-06-12T18:28:56.292-07:002017-06-12T18:28:56.292-07:00I don't think a new heavy rail line is needed ...I don't think a new heavy rail line is needed in the 270 corridor. But if there was one, you'd see those suburban office parks redeveloped pretty quickly into mixed-use communities like Pike & Rose or Reston Town Center.<br /><br />The Purple Line, on the other hand, will be a game changer. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-89795896194937691662017-06-12T18:08:22.495-07:002017-06-12T18:08:22.495-07:00Four days late, Dyer!
#Scooped
#Plagiarism
#Sno...Four days late, Dyer!<br /><br />#Scooped<br /><br />#Plagiarism<br /><br />#Snoribund<br /><br />#ReheatedNews<br /><br />#BeepBeepBeepAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-69434214234231916652017-06-12T17:41:53.593-07:002017-06-12T17:41:53.593-07:00"The Beltway is a long drive north from downt..."The Beltway is a long drive north from downtown during rush hour. That's why we were supposed to have an interstate connection to the downtown."<br /><br />Huh? What does this have to do with Dulles and the Second Crossing? The Second Crossing would be even farther north from "downtown".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-59040382684938881032017-06-12T17:39:09.367-07:002017-06-12T17:39:09.367-07:00"Are you now challenging the MWCOG official s..."Are you now challenging the MWCOG official study results?"<br /><br />No, just your blatant lying about what they actually said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28521945.post-41460112679832523242017-06-12T17:30:08.511-07:002017-06-12T17:30:08.511-07:005:12: A foul-mouthed response doesn't change t...5:12: A foul-mouthed response doesn't change the facts. Are you now challenging the MWCOG official study results? Not a solid position to take, my friend. Robert Dyer using official MWCOG numbers, and "Anonymous" using....? Hysterical.<br /><br />If you think Beltway to Dulles Toll Road is "direct," whether from downtown Bethesda or the I-270 corridor (the latter being where we would want to locate these large corporate headquarters and research/development facilities), you simply have another definition of "direct" than the rest of us. The Beltway is a long drive north from downtown during rush hour. That's why we were supposed to have an interstate connection to the downtown.Robert Dyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01975969463714952623noreply@blogger.com