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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most ADU's will be single people or a newlywed type couple. Most zoning, at least in DC, limits the number of unrelated people who can live on the same property, so you may want to get clarification on this before you freak out.[/quote]

That is a joke!

If you actually lived in MoCO, you would know that there is a big issue of investors purchasing SFHs and renting them out to 4 different families, and getting paid in cash so there is no record of it.  We have these homes on our street.  So, where there was once a home with 4 or 5 people in it, there are now 14.  And 7 cars parked in the street that were not there before.  And 6 kids now attending the local school.

MoCO already has laws saying how many people can live in a SFH, but there is ZERO enforcement of those laws.  How can you prove how many people live in a home, when those people are undocumented??

This is going to lead to even worse problems of overcrowding for schools that are already over capacity and greets that are already overwhelmed.[/quote]

That's because there's a housing shortage. The solution to a housing shortage is: increasing the supply of housing. Which ADUs will do - not much, but some. Certainly more than nothing.

Also, there seems to be a general belief on DCUM that "undocumented" means "no documents of any sort whatsoever." But it doesn't. It means "no documents showing status of authorized presence in the country."[/quote]

In our neighborhood, it means that you're living in an illegal apartment in the basement of a SFH, that is not up to code, and paying cash rent so the owner doesn't have to pay taxes.  It means that you can show up at our ES the week before school starts, without the 'required' documents and the school will let you admit your child.[/quote]

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