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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Developers build what makes them the most money. Full stop.   They don't care about density, community, or anything else.

Wanting to turn the suburbs into urban areas (cement city if you will) is not what I want, which is why I saved up and moved to the suburbs.  But but the majority will prevail.  Right now, it is not clear to me if it is a very vocal minority (GGW and their worshippers, who are everywhere on social media) wanting to densify everything, or the majority.  Time will tell.

And by the time it happens (public schools will be fully destroyed, traffic unbearable, and taxes coming into the county less because no large business with thousands of white collar jobs will come here because the schools are a disaster and there is no suburban area for their white collar professionals will want to live), we will be long gone.[/quote]

It is actually the opposite of the doom and gloom you project.

Traffic is unbearable because we don't invest enough in mass transit and bikes. If you live somewhere you are forced to drive a single occupancy vehicle as a sole means of getting around, then the royal we are doing it wrong. Having more density means there are more viable alternatives produced by the market and by government, for mobility choice. More choice means more space on the road for those who live where they must drive, or are willing to pay a premium for it.

I am not sure why you project doom for schools. If there is that much of a population boom, then we should be building more schools, and the white collar jobs will follow. As it is, being a suburb of DC means there will always be plenty of white collar jobs around the government and contractors.[/quote]

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