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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody is going to eradicate your house, while you own it.

Also, I don't think you should generalize about the reasons why homeowners of detached houses in the University Boulevard corridor bought there. Maybe YOU bought there because you want a suburban neighborhood, but that doesn't mean everyone did. In addition, small multi-unit buildings exist in suburbs and are fully compatible with suburbs.[/quote]

70% of my neighborhood are homeowners. Confident that many of us if not all are attracted by the suburban feel and small scale of this neighborhood. We chose to live in the suburbs not high density.

To the poster above, yes, this will effectively eradicate single family homes when developers can scoop up the relatively cheap homes, bulldoze them, build multiplexes, and then sell each for more than one home cost. That’s what we see elsewhere in the county. [/quote]

It will drive up value of property at the lowest end of the price spectrum as developers seek those out and drag down property values for people that have already invested significant funds into their homes, because they aren’t attractive to developers, and by god, who wants to invest in a nice SFH next to a multiplex?

Traffic will get worse, the schools will get worse, the quality of life will be worse.  As an added bonus, if you live within x feet of one of the new bus stops in the corridor, you won’t have to include off street parking anymore when building units.

Won’t that be something?

All this for what, some neo urban aesthetic?  So some handful of randos can walk to a pretend independent coffee shop?[/quote]

Doesn’t Georgetown in DC have multi units next door to million dollar SFH? Why is Georgetown not experiencing the hellscape that you predict?[/quote]

Georgetown doesn't have either schools or SFHs[/quote]

Which Georgetown are you talking about? PP was asking about the Georgetown in DC, which has both schools and SFHs.[/quote]

Name those schools.  They are all one neighborhood over.

[b]As for SFH.  Usually that refers to houses that are detached. [/b] The homes in Georgetown are row houses.[/quote]

Does it? Maybe we should stop using the term "sfh" since there is no agreement about what it means.

Also there are detached houses in Georgetown, though not many.[/quote]

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