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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, [b]I live less than 2 miles from downtown Bethesda, and we rarely go there.[/b] 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]

Downtown Bethesda seems to be doing fine without you as a customer, which suggests that the system is working.

Also, there are plenty of places for multi-car households to live that are not downtown Bethesda right on top of the Bethesda Metro station and future Purple Line station. If you must have multiple cars per household, and it's difficult to park in downtown Bethesda, it is rational to live in one of those places, rather than in downtown Bethesda.

In 2011, 26% of households in downtown Bethesda didn't have a car.

It doesn't all have to be about you - or about me (we're a multi-car household in the upcounty). I'm not saying that to be snarky. It's just a fact.[/quote]

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