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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Housing. Pls explain what is happening. It will affect our immediate neighborhood. Multi family or multistory?? [/quote]

If the county tells you, would you believe them?

Back when they were trying to sell Thrive and the topic of upzoning came up the council and planning board were selling it as no big deal…probably wouldn’t happen, and if it did happen it would be very carefully controlled.  Hucker came to speak to a group in our neighborhood and very much undersold it. He talked about how they’d make sure that all construction would fit the neighborhood and designs would come from a selection of designs approved by the county, etc.  He spoke about how parking requirements probably wouldn’t change (and here we are, fewer parking requirements in new building near the BRT).

Well, once again they alleviated some concerns to get Thrive through, and it was all smoke and mirrors.  It will be the same with the corridor plans now.  Don’t believe it anything unless it’s in writing in the plan and it’s SPECIFIC.[/quote]

If the county had a pattern book of pre-approved designs for different zones, they could alleviate a lot of this ambiguity. Here's one that covers some parts of DC: [url]https://dhcd.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dhcd/page_content/attachments/Segment%20001%20of%20Pattern%20Book%20compressed.pdf[/url] and another for Mount Rainer: [url]https://issuu.com/mncppc/docs/21421_mt_rainer_061118_web?e=2864017%2F62879957[/url]

You can preserve character while also getting some infill, and it protects from developers doing large and generic designs. 
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