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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The minimum parking required by the Montgomery County planning board does not come close to match the actual parking spots needed for the density being built. For example, 600 units, 35% of which are two and three bedroom units, 800 parking spots. Guess what, there's going to be families, roommates, Etc, and more than 200 of the 600 units will have more than one driver, with a car. And yet that's what's encouraged (this actaul example is for the 2 high rise buildings at the Pookshill Marriott site).

As far as Bethesda, I live less than 2 miles from downtown Bethesda, and we rarely go there. Why? Because parking sucks, and I don't want to spend 30 minutes driving around looking for parking, or getting stuck in a long line in a garage. There are plenty of places to go where I can easily find a parking spot, and that's what we do.  Limit the parking, you'll have even more families like us just avoiding the area.[/quote]

More than 1 parking space per unit is way more than needed for new housing new high quality transit, which certainly describes downtown Bethesda.

If households need more than 1 car they can buy elsewhere and it really doesn't make sense for someone who is going to drive everywhere to even live in Bethesda as you aren't taking advantage of the primary benefit of living there.  Parking spaces are expensive and unnecessarily drive up the cost of housing.

I get that your experience is every adult in the household needs a car and needs to use the car for every trip but many people live differently and that is a good thing for everyone.

Our family of 4 with two very programmed kids and 2 working adults has gotten by comfortably with 1 car and we are in a less transit friendly location than downtown Bethesda.[/quote]

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