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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do actually want to turn Bethesda into Paris and raze all detached SFH. the fact that there are detached SFH so close to DC and density starts just by pike and Rose is criminal urban planning. Just purely captured by the rich[/quote]
You apparently don't understand a lot of things. First that Bethesda is not a central city. And second, the density in the outskirts of Paris has lots of detached SFHs.

Like you have literally no idea what you’re talking about. [/quote]

We're talking about the parts of Paris close to the center that are moderately tall...
Haussman scale. Six stories.

Not the distant Shady Grove type parts of Paris or La Defense.

The part that everyone likes and wants to visit.[/quote]
You seem confused about geography. La Defense is the Rosslyn/Tysons of Paris. Everything that right outside the Periph, including Neuilly, Saint-Denis, etc are about the same distance from central Paris as downtown Bethesda is to the Capitol building. It is not hard to just go to Google Maps and look at these places. What you will see is basically the same built environment as Bethesda, Silver Spring, etc. Lots of park apartments with big parking lots near transit and lots of attached and detached SFHs with yards.

It disturbs me that the whole planning/urbanist push is based on false understandings of places you are trying to emulate.[/quote]

They’ve been to EPCOT several times, who are you to argue?[/quote]

Lol, as if you aren't making the most basic slam an American who has traveled abroad can make.[/quote]
DP. How else is one to respond to the PP wanting Bethesda to be like central Paris and not like La Defense*?

That statement evinces such a fundamental misunderstanding of geography that the only response can be to laugh.

*Montgomery County could only dream that Bethesda becomes like La Defense, but developers won’t build it because businesses don’t want to locate there.[/quote]

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