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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish for the developers to put up a 6 sotry building on the left (or as many as are allowed), and as many townhouses as can fit on the right, and a home with chickens behind, of every council and planning board member's single family house.[/quote]

The Robin Hood implication is belied by the fact that the recommendations rob from the not-so-rich -- those in older, closer-in, built-out neighborhoods without alternate protections to their existing zoning -- instead of the truly wealthy -- those more typically protected by covenants or more likely to effect such (e.g., Chevy Chase), those protected by historic designation (e.g., historic Takoma Park), separation from the high-density zones (e.g., Bethesda along Massachusetts/MacArthur/the river) and those living in their no-BRT-for-us-thanks mansion zones (e.g., Potomac).  One wonders how many of the Council, the Planning Board and the developers who would gain greatly from this plan really live in those older, closer-in, built-out, more-to-the-east detached SFH neighborhoods that would be most affected.[/quote]

One doesn't. For example, I don't. Maybe you do.

With all these dark allusions, you think somebody would be willing to do the work and figure out where the Council members and Planning Board members live. But why do that, when you can just keep making dark allusions?

While you were listing people/groups who would gain greatly from this plan, you forgot to list one important group: the people who will live in the new housing.[/quote]

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