Now there are signs the Alexandria-based company is again moving forward. They have applied for a liquor license with Montgomery County. Their hearing is scheduled for October 18 at 11:00 AM.
Perhaps a serial killer can bring some life to dead Fairmont Avenue. Escape Quest's Alexandria location has earned the title of "Best Date Night Ever."
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Awesome thnx for the scoop!
"Rezone and bulldoze SFH neighborhoods"
Where and when?
"Soviet-style apartment blocks"
How are the apartments proposed for Westbard any different than the new apartments and condos in downtown Bethesda and in Pike & Rose?
"Boarding houses"
You mean like AirBnB?
"Accessory apartments"
These have been legal for decades. You've had this explained to you previously.
OMG that campaign ad is hilarious! Keep it up Dyer, I needed the laughs this morning!
"Escape Quest's Alexandria location has earned the title of 'Best Date Night Ever'."
From whom?
Allowing accessory apartments as an option for single family home owners is not the same as tearing down and homes and will never quadruple the number of residents in the county unless every home owner tore down their house and built a duplex and each had an accessory apartment. You sir are an idiot for spewing such an idea. The sky is not falling.
From Robert Dyer's favorite local political pundit:
"The four [Republican] council at-Large candidates each filed affidavits instead of campaign finance reports stating that they had less than $1,000 in contributions and expenditures, meaning you would need a microscope to locate their campaigns."
2:22: Whoever said that hasn't been paying attention to actual campaign events around the County, and is therefore disqualified from being a "pundit." Glad they are honest that they believe money should be the deciding factor as to who should sit on the Council. He or she likely supports the MoCo cartel candidates, who are literally trying to buy the Council seats with thousands of dollars from their developer sugar daddies.
Has this pundit reported on Riemer's many scandals? Has this pundit investigated collusion between the MoCo cartel candidates and local media to run out the clock on the election by blacklisting Robert Dyer from any media coverage? Has this pundit investigated threats made to local civic groups to cancel or not hold candidate forums, threats made by the cartel or their candidates? Has this pundit investigated why the Post is only reporting on Nancy Floreen and streetlights in Takoma Park?
If not, not much of a "pundit."
12:37: A duplex with 2 accessory apartments on every lot would indeed quadruple overcrowding in MCPS. Even just a fraction of that would be on top of current overcrowding of 120-150% in many schools.
Tell us, oh great one, what your solution is to house all of the additional thousands of kids the Riemer Agenda would bring to MoCo?
5:45: Where and when? After the election. Riemer has already stated this on his Facebook while you were asleep.
Stack and pack is what is coming to Westbard. Not high-quality like Federal Realty. And now the truth is out that the Council lied again -- more students now coming from townhomes and apartments than single-family homes.
airbnb doesn't build 4-unit quadplexes - it uses existing housing inventory.
The proposed quick process and new exemptions for accessory apartments are most definitely not legal "for decades" or now. They haven't even been voted on yet by our corrupt Council.
Just saw it was Adam Pagnucco - yeah - the guy who is fully aware of who I am, and has given no mention or publicity to my platform, which is addressing in detail all of the economic issues he has - admirably - reported on in recent years on The Seventh State.
Same guy who admits he and his boss Riemer have driven the MoCo economy into the ground this decade. Yet he doesn't want to change things, and is so concerned about the status quo changing, he has to write a low-energy column to try to suppress the Republican vote.
If he really was concerned about the economy, he would be profiling me and boosting my campaign, instead of lining up behind my Democrat opponents who are going to do exactly the same thing the current Council has.
"Stack and pack is what is coming to Westbard. Not high-quality like Federal Realty."
LOL
Dyer @ 4:13 PM: "Whoever said that hasn't been paying attention to actual campaign events around the County, and is therefore disqualified from being a 'pundit.'"
Dyer @ 4:20 PM: "Just saw it was Adam Pagnucco - yeah - the guy who is fully aware of who I am, and has given no mention or publicity to my platform, which is addressing in detail all of the economic issues he has - admirably - reported on in recent years on The Seventh State."
LOL
Dyer's readers have to do all the work for him.
"Same guy who admits he and his boss Riemer have driven the MoCo economy into the ground this decade."
What a fruitcake you are, Dyer.
Not even a tiny amount of the single family homes would be torn down to build duplexes, and only a smal number of accessory apartments will be added. To say that four times as many residents would be added is simply inflammatory.
I agree schools will need to expandas housing expands, as it has done for many years in the past, and the additional residents and higher property taxes paid by more real estate improvements will cover the cost to expand schools or build more through state and county property taxes. It really is quite simple. The small number of accessory apartments will allow folks to enhance their property, gain rental income, which they pay both real estate and income tax. They don’t have to tear down and build duplexes or accessory apartments if they don’t want to. These new renters contribute by paying income tax.
The ONLY downside to all of this is the residential street parking and vehicular load on the streets. It will not destroy the lifestyle of single family neighborhoods, and allow a slightly more sustainable use of land by slightly increasing density, but with great financial benefits f0r homeowners if they choose to stay.
6:59: Lies. All the duplexes and quadplexes Riemer is proposing would be on lots currently occupied by single family homes. What are you smoking that you believe there are new greenfield development tracts in Bethesda, Silver Spring, Wheaton, etc.? LOL
We currently have a $208 million budget deficit, and massive debt. Revenue is declining thanks to high taxes that have caused the rich to flee, and no effort to attract commercial business revenue to the County. Where, pray tell, do you imagine this new money for school capacity will come from?
You know better than to claim it will come from property taxes - after unlimited development the last two decades, we are in the RED! Expenditures created by development of residential housing have EXCEEDED the revenue they generated.
Get back on the planet, man!
Jamming up street parking is PART OF RIEMER'S PLAN - to force all SFH neighborhoods into permit parking he can charge and tax them for. **** that.
5:58: Pagnucco himself admits it, meaning your homophobic comment just made you look like an idiot.
5:46: Can't even make any sense of that word salad, hobo. What did you just write? You should be a speechwriter for Fani-Gonzalez.
5:40: Take a drive on Key West out of Rockville sometime. #StackAndPack #StackAndPack No comparison to something high quality like Pike & Rose.
WTF does "stack and pack" mean?
Key West Avenue does not have any high rise buildings. Nor are any proposed for Westbard. 930 Rose is 20 stories.
"Jamming up street parking is PART OF RIEMER'S PLAN - to force all SFH neighborhoods into permit parking he can charge and tax them for. **** that."
LOL...do you really think that Riemer personally profits off residential parking permits?
@ 6:59 PM said: "Not even a tiny amount of the single family homes would be torn down to build duplexes, and only a smal[l] number of accessory apartments will be added. To say that four times as many residents would be added is simply inflammatory."
Dyer @ 7:34 PM respondeth: "Lies. All the duplexes and quadplexes Riemer is proposing would be on lots currently occupied by single family homes."
Reading comprehension is your friend, Dyer. That's not what he/she said at all.
"after unlimited development the last two decades"
Nope. Not "unlimited". Of course there have been limits. Enough silly hyperbole.
"Expenditures created by development of residential housing have EXCEEDED the revenue they generated."
Wrong. You keep attributing the rise in expenses to "development of residential housing", without providing any basis for this claim.
9:00: What limits? Every sector plan was approved. Clarksburg population increased 800%, Damascus 3x. Population increased. Services and school demands increased as a direct result. As our structural deficit shows, those costs are not met by the revenue taken in - which people like you claimed was the whole point of allowing the development, to "grow the tax base." Turned out to be a total bust - literally.
8:47: You're the one who can't read. You said "not even a tiny amount of the single family homes would be torn down to build duplexes." There is no buildable land in the downcounty to build duplexes, moron! Of course SFHs will be torn down, in vast numbers.
8:10: It means building multi-family housing in great numbers all over the place, and packing them with more people. Who use services, roads, schools, etc. Stack and pack.
High rises are absolutely planned for Westbard (several buildings will be over 120' tall), and all of the Westbard buildings are stack and pack housing. It doesn't have to be high-rise to be stack and pack, such as the low-income apartments being built in Damascus, or on Key West.
"Stack and pack is what is coming to Westbard. Not high-quality like Federal Realty."
"It means building multi-family housing in great numbers all over the place, and packing them with more people. Who use services, roads, schools, etc. Stack and pack."
So the 20-story 930 Rose is magically not "stack and pack" because...sponsors.
"What limits? Every sector plan was approved."
Sector plans are by definition limits on growth.
"Unlimited growth" would mean no zoning at all.
"You're the one who can't read. You [referring to comment @ 6:59 PM] said "not even a tiny amount of the single family homes would be torn down to build duplexes." There is no buildable land in the downcounty to build duplexes, moron! Of course SFHs will be torn down, in vast numbers."
I'm not 6:59 PM, but I'm pretty sure that he or she didn't mean "no single family homes" when he or she typed "not even a tiny amount of the single family homes".
Dyer has a great deal of difficulty understanding that there are numbers between zero...and infinity.
Can you imagine if Dyer were elected, and held his office hours between 12 and 2 AM (Eastern Time), in a state of incoherent rage?
I love how Dyer imagines that the fees for every single residential parking permit issued go directly into Hans Riemer's pocket.
11:09: Actually, the way it works is that the fees go to the County treasury, then the Council forwards it to their campaign donors, who THEN put it either over-the-table (campaign check to Hans Riemer) or under-the-table (directly into Hans Riemer's pocket). Lordy, can't wait for the FBI investigation.
5:34: Yeah, that would two more hours of office hours than our current low-energy Councilmembers hold. Sad memories of Council members refusing to meet with Macedonia Baptist Church in their offices on repeated occasions. The rage is all from the citizens against the Council.
5:24: English your first language? "Not even a tiny amount" means "none."
5:18: Developers write the sector plans. See my exposes on Westbard where Berliner sought approval from Equity One each step of the way on the language. #Oops
5:10: Everything urban outside of downtown Bethesda and downtown Silver Spring is technically stack-and-pack, but there's quite a difference in quality and architecture between Federal Realty and the boxes going up on Key West or Westbard.
"Everything urban outside of downtown Bethesda and downtown Silver Spring is technically stack-and-pack"
More stuff Dyer made up on the spot.
7:30: You don't know the definition of stack-and-pack development, and yet you're accusing me of making things up? LOL
Please explain why downtown Bethesda, downtown Silver Spring, and Pike and Rose do not count as "stack-and-pack".
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Anonymous said...
I love how Dyer imagines that the fees for every single residential parking permit issued go directly into Hans Riemer's pocket.
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Blogger Robert Dyer said...
11:09: Actually, the way it works is that the fees go to the County treasury, then the Council forwards it to their campaign donors, who THEN put it either over-the-table (campaign check to Hans Riemer) or under-the-table (directly into Hans Riemer's pocket). Lordy, can't wait for the FBI investigation.
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Robert, your claim that parking fees are going into Hans Riemer's pocket is unambiguously defamation. Have you no shame? It is small wonder you view Joseph McCarthy as "an American hero."
If there was actually any there there, then it would have been a B-I-G story and Dyer would be famous.
"Lordy, can't wait for the FBI investigation."
They're not going to investigate anything unless someone reports it to them. Have you contacted them?
I Googled the phrase "stack and pack".
I got several blogs scaremongering about "Agenda 21".
Plus one moving service by that name.
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