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There is going to be a lot of angry voters when the ramifications of these ADUs are more carefully thought through.   Many of those tiny lots weren't designed to hold extra units.   If they want to rezone these areas near metro (and their definition of 1 mile from Metro includes most of Chevy Chase and thousands of house in Bethesda),    they need to just do it in a more drastic fashion, because this hodge podge approach of adding random ADUs is just going to make conditions untenable when bad actors exploit this poorly thought out proposal.[/quote]

There won't be a lot of angry voters unless there are a lot of ADUs. And if there are a lot of ADUs, then that will show that the ADUs are meeting a major need.

But my guess is that there will not be a lot of ADUs.

Here's a look at ADU permit trends in Portland, OR: https://accessorydwellings.org/2019/01/14/adu-permit-trends-in-portland-in-2017-and-2018/[/quote]

But MoCo isn't adopting Portland's regulations.   A number of residents who have been involved in zoning and land use policy have proposed that MoCo adopt a regime similar to Portland, OR, where various required fees for new residences are waived if the ADU owner signs a covenant agreeing to charge affordable rent for 10 years; if the covenant is broken, the owner is liable for 150% of the waived fees. This grew directly from ADU conversions to short-term rentals (i.e. AirBnBs). MoCo isn't doing this.[/quote]

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