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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funny how elected officials are only talking about increasing the housing and thresholds in the RM cluster and not in areas that feed into Wootton and Rockville HS. Surely increased development there would help all of Rockville?[/quote]  The idea is to increase density near the red line which really only affects RM[/quote]

No to mention, downtown Rockville is where more people want to live.  It’s where the demand is.  People want to live near transi.  I understand some people don’t care about that and like living further away from things (and don’t car for walkability) but by and large, [b]growth is along transit.
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No, that is what YOU want and it is what some politicians are pushing for because they think they are in a position to make some money.  It’s all about greed.

If people only wanted Metro access, there would not be all the development upcountry in Clarksburg.

SFH prices in my neighborhood have gone up over the past 5 years.  Condos and townhouses have gone down.  Why?  There is an oversupply of condos/townhouses.  And people still do want a SFH with easy parking.

People move to MoCo to have the ease that comes with living in the suburbs.  You may prefer urbanization.  Not all of us want to urbanize MoCo.  You are more than welcome to love to DC.  Or even Bethesda.  Plenty of good urban options in this area.
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Different people want different things. Does everybody want to live in a walkable, transit-accessible place? No. Do lots of people? Yes. How do we know this? Because housing in walkable, transit-accessible places is more expensive than comparable housing in non-walkable, car-dependent places.

Not to mention that Clarksburg is also supposed to be a walkable, transit-accessible place -- even if, in reality, it's not.

Meanwhile, if you want to live in a car-dependent neighborhood of detached single-family houses in Montgomery County, there are plenty of places for you to choose from. You might consider, though, that the people who were there before your car-dependent neighborhood of detached single-family houses was built, almost certainly thought of your neighborhood as undesirable overdevelopment pushed by greedy developers and their bought-and-paid-for politicians. [/quote]

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