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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This applies to all municipalities.

1. Financially healthy cities have diverse revenue streams from residential, commercial, office, industrial and sales. This differs between communities.

For example it doesn’t make much sense for DC to zone more industrial or agriculture. Some places can become bedroom communities, but this is dependent on being a satellite and secondary to an anchor city like DC.

The exact make up evolves over time and is as much dictated by the market as zoning. Suffice to say you can’t and cities are hesitant to make changes to basically the economy, assuming they can change anything about their economy.

2. Residents require services, which costs money. At the extreme end, cities try to bring in outside money with hotels, vacation homes, second homes, commercial sales, sometimes at the expense of anyone who actually lives there. Sometimes cities don’t have a choice or play the short game.

3. Montgomery County is a large area, and it depends on the conversion. Some obsolete office and commercial space can convert, but the requirements for these spaces aren’t always the same as residential. Areas next to a busy street or industrial site for example. But Montgomery County is a weak bedroom community, on the basis of access to jobs and competition from Arlington and Loudon, so there is an upper limit to how many of these would actually be viable.[/quote]

There is plenty of commercial space in the County that could be converted.

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