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And [b]where in the DC metro region are those places where you can fit a few hundred thousand more people[/b]?  Assuming that with 2M more people, that about 10-20% of them will live inside the beltway, where are you going to fit 200-400K additional people?  And where outside the beltway will you fit the addition 1.6M-1.8M additional people where they don't have to drive long distances to get to work?

It's nice to have this fantasy of a non-urban sprawled area, but DC doesn't build up like many of the other major metropolitan areas, so you have a limit to the density that you can attain.  And inside the beltway is already pretty dense.  There isn't a lot of undiscovered territory where you can add buildings, so you are forced to convert single family or minimal family housing to multi-family housing.  And there's a limit to how much housing you can create that way.

You are deluding yourself if you think that this metro area can continue to adapt for the growing population with only adding mass transit over the next 10 years.  If you don't add highways and only add mass transit the average commute time for those people who cannot use mass transit will be over 2 hours each way.  Fortunately, there are others who understand this issue.  Yes, when you add the highways, it will not shorten commute times, but as the population grows, the commute times will not grow much longer than they already are.[/quote]

You could fit them just into DC. The population of DC used to be a few hundred thousand people higher than it is now.

Also, inside the Beltway is not already pretty dense. [b]Most of the county is zoned to allow only single-family-detached housing.[/b] We need to change that.

But yes, you're right, land use needs to be part of the discussion. 270 is jammed with people who moved to Frederick County (for example, Urbana) and now want the state to spend a lot of money to make it easier for them to drive long distances for work. It's a disaster for the region, and also for the global climate.[/quote]

Not true. Montgomery County is zoned for multi-family housing throughout the county. You need to keep up with the news.[/quote]

No, being allowed to build a detached accessory dwelling unit under certain conditions does not count as multi-family zoning.

In Montgomery County, 35% of the land area is zoned for agriculture or open space, and 48% is zoned for detached single-family housing. That leaves 18% of the land area for everything else.[/quote]

What is with the disinformation campaign? The council changed zoning throughout the county recently. Detached accessory dwelling units are mulit-family zoning. The owner needs to live in the main house. They do not need to be related to the people living in the backyard house.[/quote]

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