Well, sure, if you live within walking distance of Forest Glen Metro, for example. There's lots of stuff a mile and a half north at Wheaton Metro, and there's lots of stuff half a mile south on the other side of the Beltway, but Georgia Avenue is awful, so you don't want to walk to either one. Fortunately, there are plans to fix this. |
You haven't looked into those plans very well. Doesn't address crossing the beltway, among many other shortcomings. |
Or you can rely on the zoning of the area and adequate local input to public processes to change that zoning. Or not, as has been the case in MoCo of late. |
That is literally what they are doing right now. |
https://www.roads.maryland.gov/mdotsha/pages/pressreleasedetails.aspx?PageId=0&newsId=4685 |
Great, I can buy the neighbor’s tear down and turn it into a rental parking lot to house all of the new missing middle cars. I think that would be way more profitable that building housing there. |
Terrific, we are in agreement, you just think that building an apartment building in a SFH area is a very minor thing and that people who think that’s a terrible idea are just complaining about “something different,” which pretty neatly sums up the YIMBY narcissism. |
People keep thinking it's a winning rhetorical argument to compare duplexes or fourplexes to toxic waste dumps, rental parking lots, chemical factories... |
Apparently YIMBY narcissism is pointing out that "I don't want to live next to a duplex" is not the basis for good housing policy. |
And no dedicated funding. GA Ave is the worst. |
Your link to last summer's meeting announcement is just a misdirection, yes? The plan doesn't have any significant improvement for getting pedestrians across the beltway. |
Yes, Georgia Avenue is the worst now, but there are plans to make it better. And some of those plans are funded. |
Nope. They are not doing this on a neighborhood basis or even a cluster of neighborhoods basis. Totally top-down. Inadequate local input, and underhanded to change the definition of the zoning categories, themselves, rather than go through the process that had been set up for changing the zoning of a property or group of properties. |
Those plans are limited and piecemeal in geography, don't address holistic area needs holistically and are inadequate to the now-stated aims, cut back from the inadequate plans that had been put forward years back. They don't want to spend the money it would take to really improve things in less wealthy areas. |
There is already a whole bridge for getting pedestrians across the Beltway. That's not the problem. The problem is that Georgia Avenue south of the Beltway is miserable for pedestrians, and Georgia Avenue north of the Beltway is miserable for pedestrians. |