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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This exactly. Nobody with income wants to live in those kinds of dumpy neighborhoods. [/quote]
That is exactly the point. There's a lack of middle housing in MoCo, especially in downcounty MoCo. There's not much available between scattered MPDUs and $1.5mm homes.[/quote]

Oh, yes there are! Plenty of original 1930s-40s housing stock, some still without central air. We (the original owners) tend to be teachers, non-profit workers, and government workers, and we're afraid of being priced out of our own neighborhoods, due to rising tax assessments and high cost of living in Bethesda and Chevy Chase. Happy to redevelop and build our retirement home with advanced age-in-place features, apartments for the darling NIH post-doc families and students, and condos for young families. The Council needs to EMPOWER the owners of these older houses to make these changes without being sold down the river, as most developers underbid for the old homes and then make huge $$$$$$.  This can be a real win-win if approached holistically.
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Have you been paying any attention to MoCo county council? You are already able to have an accessory apartment. "Darling NIH post-doc families"? It's hard for me to imagine that you are going to build a basement apartment or a detached ADU (tiny house) that they would want to live in. You can't even afford central air, but you're going to redevelop and build your retirement home with this scheme? In what parallel universe? What Jawando is proposing is allowing you to sell your house to a developer who will tear it down and put up a 4 unit apartment on the same lot (with additional parking allowed, BTW! But, what about Metro right next door?) So formerly SFH neighborhoods with garden apartments interspersed. I don't think there's any way around it: that will look shitastic.[/quote]

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