tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post3906884839326684915..comments2022-06-02T11:20:54.232-04:00Comments on Prince Georgian: Prince George's County Considers a Strip Mall in the Rural TierAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00344619456024544621noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-68442706339834143412009-03-27T12:38:00.000-04:002009-03-27T12:38:00.000-04:00Having just posted my own reply I thought it best ...Having just posted my own reply I thought it best not to be anonymous on my own blog: so here it is again<BR/>I hopefully have laid out more coherent points of view in my earlier blogs pointing out both environmental and historical issues; I am trying to address all possible considerations, and welcome more ideas and comments. I would love to hear more points of view and get a true dialogue going. We have only a few weeks left to stop the re-zoning, so now is the time to stand up and speak out.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00344619456024544621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-66296552505108553432009-03-27T12:30:00.000-04:002009-03-27T12:30:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-91550850197677239852009-03-27T12:09:00.000-04:002009-03-27T12:09:00.000-04:00I agree this proposed plan has had inadequate tran...I agree this proposed plan has had inadequate transperency and the public policy arguments in favor of it are murky at best. What I think has not been thoroughly or adequetly aired is that in order for this project to proceed,it requires legislatively changing the zoning. So basically it is a shift from the accustomed uses in the near viciity and an alteration of the framework that the other surrounding landowners have come to rely on. It smells a lot like special interest rezoning to me. If investors, merchants, builders and profiteers can redefine our neighborhoods by getting special consideration from the government, then I think we are entitled to know why. So I think it is a disservice to characterize this controversy as one in which people are either for or against strip malls. The real issue is whether the folks most effected by this proposal fancy the reclassification of this rural parcel of land and everything else around it simply because some landowners and a builder put their heads togeher and decided to ask the politicians...? What's going on here?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com