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[quote]Uh huh.  Like the family with two kids and a dog and want a yard north of Germantown will find an upscale flat above a Sweetgreen in DC to be a substitute.  [/quote]

A few might.  But even if not, all market segments in the regioin are connected to some degree - the flats above sweetgreen might draw some singles living together sharing a rowhouse, which might draw a couple with one kid and no dog from a SFH in Bethesda, which yes, might draw someone from Germantown.

Or to think of it another way, if we do NOT build flats for people, they are going to go somewhere.  At some point that leads to something being built somewhere else. If we restrict development in all the already developed areas (and the arguments against for NW DC are repeated in almost the same terms in Arlington, in Bethesda, etc) then they will go to sprawlville.  Directly  or indirectly.

[quote]Don’t forget - Greater Greater Washington and its allies have actually argued against the Montgomery County Agriculture Preserve but now they piously invoke preservation of the countryside to argue for upzoning and lots of infill development in Ward 3.  The only connection to the countryside that many of these so-called “urbanists” have is the horse shit that they are trying to sell us.[/quote]

I am quite sure GGW has not. Some market urbanists who are more focused on the market part than the urban part maybe, but not GGW.  And their ally, the Coalition for Smarter Growth, was originally formed with help from the Piedmont Environmental Council, as part of a case for rural preservation.  Thats why they have that name - when they opposed sprawl, they wanted to make clear they did not oppose ALL growth. [/quote]

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