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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all 30 pages but the people who seem most passionately against this are from Wheaton, Silver Spring and Bethesda. I just can't imagine anyone in Potomac, Poolesville, or Darnestown even caring about this issue. Rockville is in its own war with developers so they aren't supporting it.

[b]It just doesn't seem like anyone who owns/lives in Montgomery County is for it.[/b] Is this just coming from developers or renters?[/quote]

Plenty of people who live in Montgomery County are for it, including people who own their homes.

Note that the ADU regulation has no benefit for developers, because [b]it requires the owner to live on the property[/b].[/quote]

Again, impossible/very difficult to enforce.  It's not as if housing enforcement officers are going to do a stakeout outside these rentals to prove that the owner lives on property.

The illegal rentals in our neighborhood definitely do not have an owner living on property. [/quote]

Very easy to enforce. The tax records show whether the property is your primary residence. You can look that up in the state property tax database.[/quote]

You would think, right?  Doesn't work that way, however.

I'll tell you how it played out for one house in our neighborhood.  Someone purchased the home and put an entire second level on the house.  Owner rents it out to no less than 5 families.  He has no rental license, and collects rent in cash.  We know that he does not live there, because the property tax database shows that he lives elsewhere.  When he was approached by the County to explain, he claims that he is renting to 'family' and that he is not charging rent.  The county can't prove that he's charging rent (remember, cash only), and so he's been making tons of unreported income for the past two years on this illegal rental.   [/quote]

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