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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Don't worry. They'll put up a cool 7 story mixed use building with a Five Guys and second CVS on the ground floor. A neighborhood can never have too many. CVS carries a good supply of convenience foods.

Yes this type of development is everywhere now. Cheap construction, everything looks the same. Has been going on in Moco for years. Soon downtown Bethesda will be indistinguishable from Rockville town center, Gaithersburg Rio center and Germantown and Hyattsville "Arts" district (PG) - there will be a CVS, Five guys, Chipotle, Uncle julios, tara thai, ben & jerry's and buffalo wild wings on every corner. You "urban planners" out there are doing a terrible job IMO (not worth much), sorry! All these investment groups that own the properties only care about one thing $$$$$ and unfortunately only big chains have deep enough pockets to cover a lease.[/quote]
Urban planner work 20-50 years out and do get into designing buildings etc. Urban planner work on developing the over all plan and hand it off to architects, design boards, etc.[/quote]

Right, but urban planners have no ability to assess needs 50years out and they aren't developers.  They take no risk and they have no business designing buildings.

Buy a building, take some risk and lease it out to a tenant with no credit then tell me how that works out when they don't pay the bills.

If city government was the least bit interested (which they aren't), in neighborhood aesthetic, they would backstop leases for smaller, no credit tenants and try to build small business.

As long as the city isn't interested in it, there is no reason to blame the developers.

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I'm an old-school, big government liberal.   I'm all for the nanny state.  But these seems like an absurd and wasteful us of government power and authority.   [/quote]

Attacking unreasonable restraints on competition is not "nanny" state unless your idea of a nanny is someone who carried a big stick up San Juan Hill.[/quote]

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