Resources
Vice President Will Jawando’s Statement calling for “pause” (Tuesday, January 7, 2025) https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=46392&Dept=1
District 5 Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink (January 9, 2025) statement opposing AHSI: https://mocoshow.com/2025/01/09/councilmember-kristin-mink-releases-statement-on-attainable-housing-strategies-initiative/
Commentary on Jawando’s and Mink’s announcements: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/01/10/mink-opposition-attainable-housing/;
https://bethesdamagazine.com/2024/10/18/why-a-moco-proposal-to-expand-middle-income-housing-is-raising-a-ruckus/;
Data shows upzoning does not improve housing affordability: https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/05/05/guest-column-upzoning-affordability-and-equity/116206942/; https://stopbtownupzoning.org/2021/01/25/who-benefits-from-upzoningon-housing-affordability-and-equity/;
Extensive Upzoning and Displacement Bibliography: https://www.montgomerycivic.org/files/Upzoning+Displacement-Bibliography.docx
PDF: Upzoning and Displacement Bibliography
PDF: Bibliography and references for AHS
Alissa Pier’s and other critiques of upzoning – Experience in Minneapolis: https://www.planningreport.com/2019/06/17/minneapolis-planning-commissions-alissa-luepke-pier; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nURO5QfVKgI; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs29L9nzDKg; https://www.densitydoneright.org/Other-Cities'-Experience.php
How to connect with Councilmembers
To make our voices heard, we must flood the Council Members and Planning Staff with emails. To that end, below are the email addresses in a format that is easy to copy/paste into an email. The best way is to copy the whole group and then paste it into the “To” (sendee) box, or better yet, into the BCC box.
Councilmember.friedson@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Stewart@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Albornoz@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Balcombe@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Fani-Gonzalez@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Glass@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Jawando@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.katz@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Luedtke@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Mink@montgomerycountymd.gov
Councilmember.Sayles@montgomerycountymd.gov
Lisa.Govoni@montgomeryplanning.org
Jason.Sartori@montgomeryplanning.org
If you wish to keep County Executive Elrich apprised of your efforts, you can include his office too:
marc.elrich@montgomerycountymd.gov
Meredith.Wellington@montgomerycountymd.gov
Claire.Iseli@montgomerycountymd.gov
Also, the MoCo Council has also provided a site where comments can be communicated (comments are not publicly viewable): https://mcgmd.wufoo.com/forms/z823ui90z2ksvq/