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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes these low density neighborhoods so attractive?  The low density.  If we build everything up, they will be less attractive.  My neighborhood has a nice mix of apartments, townhomes, and detached homes, but that balance is important.  If you get rid of sf zoning, it will tip.[/quote]

Then why is Dupont Circle so expensive if it’s unattractive?[/quote]

Both are attractive to different sets of people. I don’t know what your point is, unless you plan to turn Montgomery County suburbs into a 150 year old historic urban area with metro access and in close proximity to museums and several universities, mostly appealing to young childless people.  Is this your plan, is this why you’ve made this comparison?  Or are you somehow implying that density is expensive on its own?  If that’s the case and density is so desirable and expensive, then SFH out in the suburbs must be pretty cheap.  Why would you want to drive up prices in the suburbs? Right, isn’t that the issue?

UNLESS…and stay with me here, each place has value to different people.  Many of the people that now enjoy SFH used to be the people that lives in places like DC, and places like DuPont, in particular.  You don’t get to just come in and reevaluate a neighborhood or a series of neighborhoods and decide that, you know, I don’t like.

Have you considered just moving to a place that you like, you selfish twit?

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Not PP, but nobody is suggesting you should be forced to leave your SFH.

To the contrary, it is the pro-SFH zoning folks who are seeking to force their will on others. They are the ones who want the government to impose strict rules on what private citizens can do with their own land.

If the person next to your house decides to build a four-unit apartment on their property, that doesn’t affect your right to do what you want with your own land. They are not seeking to impose their will on you, nor should you seek to impose yours on them.[/quote]

This disingenuous "nobody is making you sell your home/nobody is forcing you to build a multiplex to replace your sfh/nobody is making you leave" is rife in these discussions, completely missing the concerns presented.  It's even in the opening remarks of every one of MoCo AHS listening sessions, where they try to set a rhetorical tone that those in opposition must have it all wrong.

The rest of this post employs the same kind of disingenuity.[/quote]

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