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I think the definition of NIMBY is deciding to change the character of other people's neighborhood because it will advance your political career. In the meantime, he gets to keep his big SFH. That is Jawando to the core. I'm not interested in duplexes and fourplexes in my neighborhood. So sue me.[/quote]

Where do people get the idea that they should have a say over housing types in their neighborhood? Where does this end? I'm not interested in hydrangeas in my neighborhood, so should I get to forbid my neighboring property owners from planting hydrangeas?[/quote]

Is this a serious question?[/quote]

Sounds like a Gen Z progressive with limited life experience [/quote]

Or a clueless resident of TP.[/quote]

Actually it's my neighbor's opinion. He was born in 1940, a life-long Montgomery County native, and a white property-owning man who believes the country went wrong when it expanded voting rights beyond white property-owning men. His opinion is, if you want a say-so over property you don't own, then you need to buy it from the owner. It's one of the few political ideas we agree on.[/quote]

That's BS. Do you think anyone and everyone should be able to build a 100 story building on their property without providing parking or expanding the roads? Or operate a disco? Or build a polluting factory? Not a world I want to live in. Many zoning rules are awful but the framework exists for a reason.[/quote]

The proposal the PPs are getting upset about are not about allowing 100-story buildings, or discos, or factories (polluting or otherwise), but rather

1. allowing owners of R-60 zoned property located within one mile of a Metrorail station to construct duplexes, townhouses, and multi-family structures as a standard method development within the current R-60 lot coverage, building height, setbacks, minimum lot size, and minimum parking requirements. 
2. allowing more flexibility for projects constructed on R-60 zoned sites located within ½ mile of a Metrorail Station, by also excluding them from infill lot coverage limits and the minimum parking requirements.[/quote]

So, why doesn't MoCo rezone commercial property to allow for more residential housing.   Attaching current neighborhoods will only drive people away.  Buying a house is as much about the particular neighborhood as about the particular house itself.  In fact, it is more, because you can always remodel your house.  You can't remodel your neighborhood.
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