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The entire premise of this thread is to create housing opportunities for families.   Townhouses are middle compromise between SFH and condos.    As for real townhouse communities, building 100-200 townhouses in an organized community creates a real community, not the random collection of 10-20 townhouses.   Moreover, the large mixed use developments in MoCo are simply bizzare.  MoCo has that opportunity on the Pike.
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Well, no, actually to create housing. Housing for people who have children under 18 at home, as well as housing for people who don't have children under 18 at home. Everyone needs housing.

When you say "townhouses are a middle compromise between single-family houses and condos" - I do not understand who is compromising what. Also, how do renters fit into this?

I also don't understand your distinction between a townhouse community and, you know, townhouses in a community. Are you saying that it's possible for there to be a real community in an area with lots of different housing types? People who live in attached houses in a neighborhood can't form a community with people who live in detached houses in that neighborhood?

And by "large mixed use developments," are you referring to Pike + Rose? Or maybe Crown Farm? Or...? What's bizarre about them, other than that they're brand-new (which your neighborhood was too, at one time)?[/quote]
It feels like the same pattern over and over. According to you, the only reasonable outcomes are exactly what you want and nothing else. So bizarre.

You: We need more housing.
Other people: great, how about townhomes.
You: No, not that type of housing. It has to be exactly this type of housing and nothing else.[/quote]

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