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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People move to SFH neighborhoods specifically to have space.  They are going to ruin the entire county until it is paved concrete jungle like Tokyo and we all get to live in sh!tty 400 sqft apts.

But hey, at least the crappy chipotle down the street is walkable.  I can’t wait until this stupendously backfires and everyone with means (by and large part home owners) flees because all of the upzoning imports tons of poverty and trashy people into the county.  Gee, you mean it sucks when your neighborhood street has 30000 cars parked all over because each triplex houses 20 people all with their own cars?

R.I.P. MoCo.  Howard and AA Counties looking more attractive by the day.  [/quote]

Did you know that most Dupont circle SFH are now multi unit condos? They converted old victorian homes with many bedrooms into subdivided smaller condos. Is Dupont circle a trashy place? Also, why shouldn’t poor people live near wealthy people? Why should the government allow wealthy people to isolate themselves through government policy? Why not let the market decide?[/quote]

I live next to a group house on a small residential Moco street.  They have 2 trucks and 4+ cars with a 1 car drive way (no garage)...so obviously they take up lots of street parking..which is their right and fine.  However, if there were two or more on our same block it would be a traffic nightmare.  There is not enough space for two cars to pass each other if there is a car parked on the street.  There needs to be spots to pull over...do any of these ideas think about parking?  [/quote]

And I live down the street from a family with a HHI north of $1m, two teenagers, no driveway, and 4 cars.  Should we do something about them, too?  [/quote]

But I bet they at least mow their lawns, don’t leave junk broken down cars in the street for months, and you at least know who they are like a neighbor. [/quote]

There are rules about property maintenance and inoperable vehicles already on the books that can be enforced.

What is stopping anybody from getting to know their neighbor?[/quote]

Sure there are rules, but have you ever actually lived with it, reported the issues, and waited for actual enforcement?  Having rules means jack S if no one enforces it.  I reported abandoned cars in MoCo and it took weeks for anyone to do anything about it.  All they did was put a sticker on it and give them many weeks more to do anything about it. Meanwhile you have a trash heap junking up the entire neighbor for months on end.

It’s also kinda hard to get to know transient neighbors who constantly change rentals ever 6 months in SFHs converted into multiple rental units for low income people.  There have been at least 10 different people in and out and living at various points in the converted house over the course of only 1.5 years.  I hate to be frank about it, but they’re often very low class with very crass manners (e.g. leaving trash out in the streets for weeks because they didn’t want to buy a trash can, shooting outside the home, etc.).  I don’t want to meet a bunch of low class, ill mannered transients anyway.

This is the future for moco neighborhoods.     Multiplexes junking up what were once nice neighborhoods.  Cars all over the streets.  Junk cars piled into nice neighborhoods.  Trash in the streets.  I’ll kept lawns and properties that will inevitably turn into dilapidated S holes.  Complete destruction of local community because no one knows who lives around them anymore since they’re all transient and often low class.

MoCo is just going to turn into a junk trash heap where residents with means will leave. R.I.P. tax base. No one wants to live next to nuisance multiplexes that are loud with a bunch of transients parking 2000 cars everywhere.  If you hate SFH and suburbia, then why do you choose to live in suburbia?  Go live in the damn city then if you like density so much.  Millions of us hate city life and hate being packed like sardines in a can.  Stop trying to turn suburbia into downtown DC please.  Move to DC if you don’t like the burbs. [/quote]

I agree that people who say "there's already laws on the books" to address these problems don't know what it's like in reality. If you call 311 to report a violation (say, a house flipper who is illegally dumping paint and household chemicals into the street drain), you'll be told that someone from the county will come have a look in 45 days.

Most people in my neighborhood don't have driveways. If the zoning laws change, people who live in MFUs have every right to park on the street. But the streets cannot accommodate 4-8 cars per lot. I don't want to have to drive around the neighborhood to find a place to park at night and deal with more congestion, noise, tree clearance, school crowding, etc. 
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