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[quote=Anonymous]i live in Bethesda. The huge, hideous high-rises approved with no green spaces or community amenities (and enormous, multi-year tax breaks to developers) kill any sense of community. They destroy any beauty or ability of small retailers to thrive. Bethesda was always a bit of a bedroom community, but I remember the ice skating rink over the Metro station, which was a real community destination. The developer was allowed to build on condition that the skating rink be built. But after a few years, the developer tired of it and converted it to some kind of pebble park. 
We've lost a lot of community gathering spaces for these luxury high-rises: they tore down the Regal Movie Theater, and have blocked the street (Elm Street) leading up to the destroyed cinema for YEARS. There is no community center (so jealous of Silver Spring) and no place now where Bethesdans can see first-run movies, or child-friendly movies. I love Bethesda Row Cinema, but they don't show blockbusters or child-friendly movies.

In short, they're not building anything the current residents can use. And what they are building creates a place where rich singletons can change clothes and do laundry and then socialize in DC. And EVERYTHING they're building is an ugly glass box. After my children graduate from high school, we're moving away. There will be nothing here for them. [/quote]

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