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[b]What would you change them to?[/b] I would require a certain percentage of low-income rent-controlled units to recent and future apartments/townhomes in the new public schools's catchment area. But I would keep the cluster boundaries, otherwise it gets too complicated and people would be upset that the price they paid for their houses ended up not benefiting them as they planned, and therefore would not be in favor of a Bethesda school system.[/quote]

Don't we already have this? MoCo has had the MPDU program for years now: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DHCA/housing/singlefamily/mpdu/index.html

12-15% of new developments must have MPDUs. Even that super-pricey condo building with a $5 million penthouse apartment near Bethesda Metro (the Lauren I think) has MPDUs on the ground floor. Avenel has them too -- an entire neigborhood of MPDU homes.

The government can't (nor should they) regulate prices of other homes though. The home prices are high in Bethesda because people like the area for many reasons, including the schools.[b] I'm not sure what can really be done (or should be done) about that[/b].[/quote]

Prices are high because demand far exceeds supply. What can be done about this? Allow supply to be increased.[/quote]

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