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People that chose North Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Clarksburg, etc... may not have wanted a walkable urban lifestyle but that is what is being shoved down everyone's throats. I know when I moved here 14yrs ago, it was to move to the SUBURBS.  The growth in the area is absurd.  High rise condo/apartments up and down 355.  Gaithersburg used to be farmland and they are doing nothing but build build.  And it isn't single family homes on 1/4 acre lots.  It is mega mansions on 1/8 acre lot or rows of town homes or blocks of condos.  An area that a normal suburb would have maybe 40 homes now has at least 100 homes.  And the county continues to say apartment dwellers do not have school aged kids.  So condos and apartments yield ZERO child growth when they attempt to figure out how many kids will be at a school in say 5 years.  This is because the developers do not want to pay for schools so they continue the "non child dwelling" building and they line the pockets of those doing the surveys.  It is such as scam.  It is so overcrowded.  10 years and our elementary school went from 2 open classrooms to 8 portables outside.  People want to move to areas that have homes in normal spaces of 1/4 acre or more.  Howard County has that.  [/quote]

I'm a PP in this thread and I am with this poster 1000%!

As an aside, if there are any groups currently working in MoCo to try to curtail some of this rampant and unchecked development, I'd love to hear more about them.  
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