My idea for a new moco community thoughts?

[Anonymous]

My idea would be to take 3 square miles out of the Agricultural Reserve for a village-based community. It would be developed over 20 years, with price ranges from $250,000 to $1 million for condos, townhomes, and houses. Apartments would also be included, though you would have to be careful with those—especially regarding the price range.

There would be five villages, each with their own elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as park-and-ride lots to access the Metro stop at the center of the town. As it expands, office space and higher-end shopping could become available.

[Anonymous]

I’ve heard worse, I would just worry about infrastructure.

[Anonymous]

Bit mixed, prices sound great, like the idea of villages. But I wonder how viable it would be with having metro out there.

[Anonymous]

What would you imagine for parking, OP?

[Anonymous]

So $250 and up? So just bougie people could live there?
I’d rather you razed the area east of route 29 and built your new community there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So $250 and up? So just bougie people could live there?
I’d rather you razed the area east of route 29 and built your new community there.

Is $250k considerd high?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
What would you imagine for parking, OP?

Parking will be abundant in the common areas and general community. and all townhomes, condos, apartments, and single family will have off street parking.

[Anonymous]

3 miles is not big enough for a high school catchment area unless very densely populated.

[Anonymous]

What will the homes and floor plans look like for the lower end condos and townhomes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What will the homes and floor plans look like for the lower end condos and townhomes?

For condos think how new condos look In dc 2 beds would be prioritized. For townhomes, they would be stacked townhomes to save money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My idea would be to take 3 square miles out of the Agricultural Reserve for a village-based community. It would be developed over 20 years, with price ranges from $250,000 to $1 million for condos, townhomes, and houses. Apartments would also be included, though you would have to be careful with those—especially regarding the price range.

There would be five villages, each with their own elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as park-and-ride lots to access the Metro stop at the center of the town. As it expands, office space and higher-end shopping could become available.

Just build it on the east side of MoCo instead of using the Agricultural reserve. Great idea, and already near metro stops. The whole Glenmont shopping center area would work nicely for this.

[Anonymous]

Isn't the point of the agricultural reserve the opposite of your idea?

[Anonymous]

Moco could build much more density and mass transit before we burn the agricultural reserve

[Anonymous]

You can't build anything for less than 600K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't the point of the agricultural reserve the opposite of your idea?

Not op but the agricultural reserve is huge, and we’re in a housing shortage. would it really hurt to build on a little of it considering most of moco is built out. And lots don’t like high density development.