Thoughts on Commission 2000

For those who have followed the County Council it should come as no surprise that when it came time to vote on the recommendations of Commission 2000 report, they kept all of the things that facilitated developers getting what they want and stripped out the Schools adequate public facilities part. The majority saying that they needed to have a study of the economic effect on developers. Of course that is what the Commission 2000 spent almost 2 years working on, but if your major campaign patrons don't like the result, well then study it again until you get the result they want.

It should be noted that although the original legislation required that participants in Commission 2000 be residents of Prince George's County, the development community had some members who lived outside the County representing them. But we already knew that the laws in this County are selectively enforced. Thus it was not too surprising when the developer representative from Montgomery County, continually offered resolutions that would have condemned our Schools to continued overcrowding. After all, his children didn't go to school here. Fortunately his resolutions were voted down by Commission 2000, unfortunately the County Council enacted them.