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Until investors come in with cash and go crazy.  It’s already an issue in MoCO and this will make it worse.  Investors come in and build either up or out to turn the SFH into a boarding house for multiple families.  They recognize the potential to make a ton of money.  Currently it’s illegal, but still happens. 
It’s already changed the character of some of them previously middle class neighborhoods in MoCO.  This amplifies the problem.  [/quote]

It really does. Some of this has happened in my neighborhood and it means you get multiple families living in a house and sometimes having disputes with one another and trashing the house. Thankfully, with the right real estate market, some.ofntge slum landlords are selling and one family is buying. 
What is MoCo thinking????[/quote]

This is irrelevant to the ADU proposal, which

1. only permits 2 units, total
2. requires the owner to occupy one of them[/quote]

It is definitely relevant.

This is the rule now, that the homes have to be owner occupied, but landlords have been breaking that law for years in our neighborhood.  If MoVo can’t effectively enforce the laws that are currently in place, it is highly unlikely that it will be able to enforce these new laws.

Get the current problem of slum landlords under control.[/quote]

No, you're saying that the county shouldn't do A because it isn't currently doing B right. That doesn't make sense.

What's more, the ADU proposal includes hiring more housing enforcement officers.[/quote]

Makes sense to me.

It’s not the lack of housing code enforcement officers that is the current issues.  It’s that the County doesn’t want to crack down on any potentially undocumented families and so it looks the other way.  The slum landlords are well aware of this and take complete advantage.  This will just lead to the slum landlords being able to do even more damage to neighborhoods.  [/quote]

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