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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s crazy is deciding that some property owners have more rights than other property owners. [b]I should have a right to enjoy the single family house I purchased.[/b] Some of the illegal apartments in my neighborhood are okay, others are terrible. Behind me is an illegal apartment and the ceiling is very low. There’s no parking to start with but now they’ve added multiple vehicles. [/quote]

Nobody is forcing you to add an ADU to your property.

What you mean is: you should have a right to enjoy the single-family houses your neighbors purchased.[/quote]

No, what she is saying is that she moved to a neighborhood with single family homes so that she wouldn’t have to deal with the congestion and traffic and parking issues in other areas.

When you add additional illegal apartments to an area that isn’t meant for them, it makes the area more crowded.  [/quote]

But the ADU proposal is about adding LEGAL apartments.

And there's nothing about an area to make it "meant for" or "not meant for" anything, except the zoning laws, which can be changed.

You buy a house. You don't buy a neighborhood, and you certainly don't buy a guarantee that everything will stay the same as when you bought your house.[/quote]

What??  You absolutely buy in a ‘neighborhood’.  People choose to live in a densely populated urban neighborhood, or a more car-dependent suburban neighborhood, or a rural neighborhood where they can have farm animals.

And it’s completely reasonable for people to want their ‘neighborhoods’ to retain their character.  This is true with gentrification in parts of DC and urbanization in the suburban parts of MoCO.[/quote]

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