Posts by Carter Dougherty — Guest Contributor

Carter Dougherty is a resident of Takoma Park, an advocate for reforming the financial system by day, and a scarred veteran of the long debate over Takoma Junction. He maintains the Twitter list MoCo Policy & Politics.

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  Takoma Park’s vacant hospital campus could become new homes…one day

  ZoningOpinionBy Carter Dougherty (Guest Contributor) September 11, 2023

  Four years ago, Takoma Park’s Washington Adventist Hospital moved away, leaving vacant buildings and a 15-acre site in its wake. Montgomery County planners soon began examining ways to bring new homes, shops, and usable green space. And soon enough a handful of neighbors in the famously lefty town are trying to block it by making some pretty wild claims.  Keep reading…

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  Goojie? Gootie? Google? Googie.

  PreservationOpinionBy Carter Dougherty (Guest Contributor) April 6, 2023

  The fight over a 1960s-era dry cleaners in Silver Spring reveals a major problem with how the county handles historic designation, and we may have ended up with the right outcome despite the law.  Keep reading…

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  Elected officials in Montgomery County have nothing to fear, least of all the peddlers of fear

  ZoningOpinionBy Carter Dougherty (Guest Contributor), Mike English (Guest Contributor) January 30, 2023

  Recent elections showed that elected officials can win on pro-housing platforms. Don’t let this opportunity to shape the future go to waste.  Keep reading…