Proof Spenddening is an IDIOT!

[huntr1]

"This is an astonishing result, given the ballyhoo that has surrounded Smart Growth," said Anirban Basu, an economist with Optimal Solutions Group in Baltimore. "It suggests that Smart Growth doesn't have as much teeth as we had thought it might; that it has not interrupted this tendency toward sprawl that has been in place now for decades in Maryland."

 

[Kizzy]

You needed proff?

 

[sleuth]

Originally posted by huntr1
"This is an astonishing result, given the ballyhoo that has surrounded Smart Growth," said Anirban Basu, an economist with Optimal Solutions Group in Baltimore. "It suggests that Smart Growth doesn't have as much teeth as we had thought it might; that it has not interrupted this tendency toward sprawl that has been in place now for decades in Maryland."

It seems to me that they're assuming all areas of high growth have mostly people working in DC or Baltimore.

Am I wrong or isn't most of the growth in Southern Maryland due to PAX NAS and its supporting businesses/infrastructure?

 

[SmallTown]

Originally posted by IM4Change
You needed proff?

 

[SamSpade]

That's a shame, because it's not a bad IDEA, even if the way it's been implemented has been stupid.

I thought part of the idea was to renovate abandoned and useless parts of urban areas to attract residents. Isn't that a better idea than building more homes out here in the rural areas?

 

[SamSpade]

Re: Re: Proof Spenddening is an IDIOT!

Originally posted by sleuth14
It seems to me that they're assuming all areas of high growth have mostly people working in DC or Baltimore.

Am I wrong or isn't most of the growth in Southern Maryland due to PAX NAS and its supporting businesses/infrastructure?

I could have sworn I once read they were "smart-growthing" areas near 'downtown' Leonardtown and urbanized areas of Southern Maryland.

 

[sleuth]

Originally posted by SamSpade
That's a shame, because it's not a bad IDEA, even if the way it's been implemented has been stupid.

I thought part of the idea was to renovate abandoned and useless parts of urban areas to attract residents. Isn't that a better idea than building more homes out here in the rural areas?

They've been doing that, I thought, in the SE quadrant especially. I drove through there a few months ago, and several of the townhouses looked as though they had recently been renovated, or at the very least given a new coat of paint, and the streets looked a lot cleaner than just a couple years ago.

 

[sleuth]

Re: Re: Re: Proof Spenddening is an IDIOT!

Originally posted by SamSpade
I could have sworn I once read they were "smart-growthing" areas near 'downtown' Leonardtown and urbanized areas of Southern Maryland.

I doubt it...
It sure doesn't seem like there's much thought or money put into the way things are laid out and the way buildings, shopping centers, and roads are designed, especially in St. Mary's.

 

[huntr1]

stupid compute wouldn't let me post this 5 minutes ago

Originally posted by IM4Change
You needed proff?

Proff

No, I grew up in P.G. County. He boarhogged the county before he went on to boarhog the state. Best thing that could happen to him is for him to go out in one of his stupid, waste of taxpayer money, smartgrowth "green preserve" or whatever he calls them areas and have a tree fall on his head and beat him into the ground.

 

[huntr1]

Originally posted by SamSpade
That's a shame, because it's not a bad IDEA, even if the way it's been implemented has been stupid.

I thought part of the idea was to renovate abandoned and useless parts of urban areas to attract residents. Isn't that a better idea than building more homes out here in the rural areas?

That's the ONLY part of it I like.

 

[huntr1]

Re: Re: Proof Spenddening is an IDIOT!

Originally posted by sleuth14
It seems to me that they're assuming all areas of high growth have mostly people working in DC or Baltimore.

Am I wrong or isn't most of the growth in Southern Maryland due to PAX NAS and its supporting businesses/infrastructure?

You're wrong. Partly. Not completely. More people in my neighborhood work in DC than at the Base. Mid/Southern St. Mary's and Mid/Southern Calvert you have a bunch of people for the base, and Mid/Northern St. Mary's and Mid/Northern Calvert you have a bunch of people for DC.

 

[Kizzy]

of course that was a typo, proof, the word of the day is "proof."