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| "Triplex" homes proposed for King Farm Boulevard |
120 of the housing units would be in a condo building at Piccard Drive and Choke Cherry Road, and 42 more would be in triplex homes on King Farm Boulevard. The units would be within the total number allowed by the King Farm master plan; 3,329 housing units have been constructed in King Farm so far, and 3600 units is the total permitted.
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| 5-story condo building proposed for Piccard Drive |
While claiming that the revenue will help the City or County is perhaps the oldest canard in the developer PR handbook, the reality is that office developments create more net revenue for governments than residential. Not only does residential generate students for already-overcrowded public schools, but also requires the delivery of government services. In contrast, people working in the kind of offices you find in a place like King Farm are less likely to require government services. They not only may live outside of the jurisdiction, but also are probably making a decent white-collar wage and can support themselves.
The proposed change has been endorsed by the King Farm Citizens Assembly, and by a number of nearby landowners and developers.
Condos and apartments create jobs, too. They have on-site staff and many contractors involved in their operations.
ReplyDeleteGive me a break... There is no comparison between the jobs that would exist in an office building versus the jobs "created" in the management of condos (once built). Ah, Rockville, the ultimate bedroom community!
DeleteHmm. Coincidental that "Anonymous" 3:10 would use one of Dyer's own favorite phrases.
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Can't lose jobs that haven't been created yet. Also, the traffic impacts from residential developments are far less than equivalently sized office buildings.
ReplyDeleteSuburban office parks are in decline nationwide. The neighboring Redlands Corporate Center just finished a multi-million dollar upgrade to their facility in order to entice new tenants. And the author of this blog thinks MORE office space is what's needed? Note also that hundreds of thousands of square feet of new office space are coming online in the Upper Rock District immediately adjacent to this site. Meanwhile transit-oriented residential town center developments like King Farm, Crown and Kentlands are BOOMING across the country.
ReplyDeleteThe new residents can just hop on the Metro, get off at Bethesda, and work at either Marriott or Fox 5 in Bethesda.
ReplyDelete6:19: Metro is hardly reliable, but Marriott and Fox 5 are not creating new jobs, just moving existing ones, old sport.
DeleteAnd how do you know that jobs at King Farm would be new and not existing jobs, old sport? Also, the Fox 5 jobs are new -- to Bethesda, anyway.
DeleteFox 5 is creating new jobs in Montgomery County. Isn't that what you have always been advocating for?
Delete10:34: Fox 5 is moving the people they have in D.C. to Bethesda. That doesn't create new jobs. Let's hope our elected officials didn't sign a deal that didn't include a significant number of new jobs. Yet I heard nothing about such a stipulation in the PR campaign announcing the move.
DeleteJobs moving from DC to MD isn't creating new jobs for MD? I don't understand your logic. Metro's reliability isn't stopping people from using it as their main form of transportation from Shady Grove to points south, so that argument is invalid.
Delete...or get off at Twinbrook.
ReplyDeleteIt's really funny that this article is immediately above one about the Saul project, which will include 431,440 square feet of office space.
We just need more income generating jobs in this county, period. Idk where the heck all these new residents are working!? All we have are residential and service sectors.
ReplyDelete(Not posted by Bob Dyer) YES, a real bedroom community... where most of the revenue to run the City comes from taxing residents, not businesses.
Deletemore housing will lower market value.
ReplyDeleteMore traffic gridlock and massively overcrowded schools will also lower market value.
DeleteTear it all down and give it to Jeff Bezos. WINNING!
ReplyDeleteOriginally, the plan was to build schools in King Farm, at least an elementary school, but then MCPS decided to split the neighborhood in half, south of Redland goes to College Gardens, north of Redland goes to Rosemont. They killed two birds with one stone 1) saved $$$ by not building and staffing a school, 2) diluted their 'HOla' ESL student body in the Gaithersburg Rosemont school. Rockville residents get thier kids forced into Rosemeont, it's pretty well known, you buy in King Farm with kids you better make sure you buy south of Redland because MCPS lied to everyone just to get their numbers up in a certain school. Now with the condos here and around Shady Grove metro station built I wonder what MCPS's plan will be, granted condos don't usually bring all that many children, but should be a few hundred more than five or so years ago. Probably add trailer classrooms to the parking lots at Rosemont.
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