Moat around Edgemoor

[Anonymous]

Because Edgemoor and Chevy Chase were nice quiet suburban neighborhoods before Bethesda became a crowded madhouse of shoppers. They didn't sign up to live like that, unlike, say, Georgetown and Adams Morgan that have always been urban areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason we have these sign are people like you who take up the parking in front of our houses.

I am from Virginia and was invited to a coffee at a home in Bethesda. One of the Mom's at my daughter's private was hosting. I drove onto her street and all the parking was off-limits. She had to cram us all into her driveway like it was a freakin' rock concert.

I live in Great Falls. Trust me when I tell you some folks here have more money than God (not me - HA ) We do not have this attitude. I have alo seen three cars pull off the road simultaneously to rescue someone's loose dog on a busy road - not one of us was going to let that dog get hit. The person who got to the dog first, checked the tags and loaded the pup in her truck to take back to the owners. That's how we function here.

I will take the commute rather than live in a 'moat' town.

Uh, hate to burst your bubble, but Good Samaritans are everywhere, including inside the moat. We've brought at least four dogs home over the past few years that we've found wandering, including in traffic on Connecticut Avenue, and had many of our neighbors actively searching for the owners each time. When our dog walker had a diabetic reaction, we received a call from the owner of the house near where she fell who had taken in our dog and several others while the paramedics tended to the dog walker. While it might be nice to think that only in Great Falls would people leap to rescue a dog from harm, you're very, very wrong. It's how we function here in the moat too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because Edgemoor and Chevy Chase were nice quiet suburban neighborhoods before Bethesda became a crowded madhouse of shoppers. They didn't sign up to live like that, unlike, say, Georgetown and Adams Morgan that have always been urban areas.

I agree with your point, although it could apply to a number of close in neighborhoods (Lyon Village, AU Park, Chevy Chase DC, Cleveland Park) that are semi-suburban and worry about being slammed by adjacent large, intensive commercial development. How to protect the neighborhoods and yet permit nearby development is the question. In that regard, the Edgemoor/Chevy Chase Village templates by Bethesda seem to work pretty well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason we have these sign are people like you who take up the parking in front of our houses.

I am from Virginia and was invited to a coffee at a home in Bethesda. One of the Mom's at my daughter's private was hosting. I drove onto her street and all the parking was off-limits. She had to cram us all into her driveway like it was a freakin' rock concert.

I live in Great Falls. Trust me when I tell you some folks here have more money than God (not me - HA ) We do not have this attitude. I have alo seen three cars pull off the road simultaneously to rescue someone's loose dog on a busy road - not one of us was going to let that dog get hit. The person who got to the dog first, checked the tags and loaded the pup in her truck to take back to the owners. That's how we function here.

I will take the commute rather than live in a 'moat' town.

Uh, hate to burst your bubble, but Good Samaritans are everywhere, including inside the moat. We've brought at least four dogs home over the past few years that we've found wandering, including in traffic on Connecticut Avenue, and had many of our neighbors actively searching for the owners each time. When our dog walker had a diabetic reaction, we received a call from the owner of the house near where she fell who had taken in our dog and several others while the paramedics tended to the dog walker. While it might be nice to think that only in Great Falls would people leap to rescue a dog from harm, you're very, very wrong. It's how we function here in the moat too.

We don't get our car ticketed in the process....