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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about Kensington. Albornoz lives in Parkwood, is his neighborhood exempt?[/quote]
Kensington does not have its own independent planning permission. However, a portion of Kensington is historically protected. Same with Garrett Park. Downtown Kensington is considerd a small growth center in Thrive, but Connecticut is a growth corridor. So neighborhoods like Chevy Chase View could see changes but not Parkwood. Like Garrett Park, a transit density overlay would not apply to Kensington because the area around the train station is historically protected.[/quote]

It really disgusts me that Albornoz has no chance of getting a quadplex next door to his big, beautiful house. The council is completely corrupt.[/quote]
His house would be totally protected. His neighbors on Connecticut could get up-zoned though.

Most likely areas to get upzoned first would be within a mile adjacent red and purple line stops and edge neighborhoods near the large growth centers, e.g. downtown Bethesda, downtown Silver Spring, Wheaton, and White Flint. It is interesting how these decisions have been made. For example, Old Georgetown Rd was not a growth corridor, despite connecting downtown Bethesda to Pike and Rose, but Randolph Rd and University Blvd are. Kind of gives the game away.[/quote]

What about Derwood?   I am within a mile of the Shady Grove stop.   We are in a SFH community on about 1/4 acre each.   Or is that too far out?[/quote]
I imagine that you are probably safe. Their focus in Derwood right now is moving the MCPS bus depot so that they can give it away to a developer, which is across the street from that new Westside development. Probably also upzoning the car dealerships in the area. I think they would want to protect developer profit at Westside and until the bus depot is redeveloped so I doubt they would do anything to the adjacent SFH neighborhood. Probably only that corner near Redlands and Crabs Branch, but there is already stuff there that would be hard to redevelop, including the MVA, a church and existing apartments.[/quote]

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