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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have young adult children, and they are definitely not seeking 700 square foot 1 1/2 bedroom condos.  They want three bedroom townhouses under 2000 square feet for under a million.  Do such homes exist?  All the new townhouses I see are $2 million and 3000 square feet.  [/quote]

Move to Rockville? You can’t afford NWDC if that’s the case. Idk why people think the world should cater to their budget?[/quote]

They can’t afford NWDC due to zoning restrictions …. [/quote]

So what? Not every person is entitled to live anywhere they like.

Put another way, everyone reading this will be prohibited from living somewhere as a direct result of residential zoning restrictions.  For Paul and Susan, that somewhere is FH. For Tim and Liz, that somewhere is Maui.  For Bob, that somewhere is Rockville[/quote]

But there's no reason to have zoning restrictions that make it impossible for anyone except people who can afford expensive single-family homes to live in Friendship Heights — a neighborhood that includes a major commercial corridor and a Metro stop. It's not Maui.

Plus, there's no reason to think adding apartment buildings on Wisconsin will change much for people who live deeper inside the neighborhood. It might make things more crowded for me, personally, as I live less than a block from Wisconsin and almost directly across the street from a parcel targeted for up-zoning. But just because something might be marginally less convenient or desirable for me personally doesn't mean it's bad public policy, and I'm fine with it.[/quote]

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