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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you. I will write to tell them that I support duplexes and small apartment buildings.[/quote]

I support duplexes and small apartment buildings, but I don’t support razing existing SFHs to build them. Upzoning would make the shortage of SFHs even worse. There’s already so much wasted space in the county- ugly half empty strip malls, etc. that would be perfect for a new development.  Start there.[/quote]

The existing SFHs are ALREADY getting razed. It's just that they're getting replaced with McMansions instead of duplexes. I think it would be better to have duplexes.

Meanwhile, the "ugly half empty strip malls, etc." are ALREADY zoned for commercial/residential use, and some of the property owners are already building commercial/residential buildings on them. Other property owners aren't, presumably because the strip malls are more profitable, however ugly you may find them. Do you think the county should force the property owners to replace their strip malls with commercial/residential buildings?
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Well I don't think they should force people who bought expensive homes in leafy SFH neighborhoods to have to deal with ugly duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes. Soo..I will side with the residential homeowner versus some gross strip mall[/quote]

"Deal with" them how? They shouldn't have to look at them? They shouldn't have to live near them? They shouldn't have to have neighbors who live in them?[/quote]

yes to all of the above

We all spent $2M + to get out of the DC density...[b]I'd like to keep it that way.[/b] There are plenty of more suburban areas that are cheaper to develop.[/quote]

You have the option to move.[/quote]

And people who can't afford close in Moco can move as well...how is your argument any different than mine?

I want to live on the beach in Nantucket. I can't so I buy elsewhere. [/quote]

I think everyone understands that rich people have options poor people don't have.[/quote]

Oh, is this affordable housing?  They really should plainly state that so that people know that affordable housing is coming to their neighborhood.  However, I haven’t seen anything to indicate that any of the housing is required to be affordable.  [/quote]

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