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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some urban(ish) areas along Rockville Pike/Wisconsin Ave don't really change the character of the whole county. There are still many parks and green, open spaces all over MoCo.[/quote]

Except that it's not just one or two pockets of overdevelopment in Montgomery County.  It's all over.  Montgomery County has been slowly paving over all the empty space, and putting in high density housing.

It's been hundreds of thousands of additional housing units in the past 5 years even.  Pike and Rose, Rockville Town Center, Crown - are all high density development.  Plus tons of additional housing going in near the Shady Grove Metro.  Plus, all the high/mid rise apartment complexes near Shady Grove hospital.

The residents of Rockville Town Center asked for a park.  Instead the City Council wants to build more housing.

Multiple pockets of urban development absolutely change the character of the whole county.  We've been watching it happen![/quote]

This is the "OMG big giant apartment buildings" = overdevelopment argument.

Before Pike + Rose was Pike + Rose, it was shopping centers with very large surface parking lots. It was already paved. Before Rockville Town Center was Rockville Town Center, it was a mall. It was already paved. Before the housing on 355 near Shady Grove Metro was built, it was used car lots, etc. It was already paved.

Crown, of course, was a farm - decades ago. I guess it was open space, but it was open space held for development. If you think that right next to I-270 in Gaithersburg is a bad place for development, take it up with the City of Gaithersburg.

There are about 387,000 housing units in Montgomery County. About 184,000 of those units (48%) are single-family detached houses. Another 72,000 (19%) are single-family attached houses. There's plenty of driving-around suburb still in Montgomery County, for people who want that. And for people who want something else, Montgomery County is getting that too.[/quote]

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