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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our neighborhood (Cleveland Park in Washington) is called the “village in the city.”  We love that.  It doesn’t have to be Bethesda.[/quote]

It basically is Bethesda...

Also, other people would also like to live in Cleveland Park.[/quote]

There are apartment vacancies and condos and houses on the market right now.[/quote]

Well, of course there are. That's how the housing market works. There are always some vacancies and some housing units on the market. But you wouldn't seriously argue that these vacancies/units on the market prove that there's no demand for additional housing, would you?[/quote]

There’s always demand for new housing at a lower price.  Many people would love to find an affordable flat across from the Metropolitan Museum or in Aspen but that’s not a realistic entitlement.  Closer to home and a bit more down to earth, you could replace a lot of SFHs in the Palisades, Chevy Chase DC and  Cleveland Park with taller and denser apartment buildings.  Some might be cheaper but I suspect a lot would be very high end.  Of course, then you would destroy a lot of the neighborhood character and change the quiet leafy streets and other qualities that people value.  Then those neighborhoods will become a lot more generic looking, just another place to live in DC.[/quote]

This argument is basically, "I live here, and I don't want it to change, so the other people who own property here should have to do what I want."[/quote]

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