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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poster who wants to keep asserting that there should be no single family houses inside the Beltway needs to understand the life cycle of those neighborhoods. They were in decline, some of us bought older homes with significant deferred maintenance and fixed them up. Now, 20 years later, they are desirable again (thanks for our hard work) and we get to hear about how it's a waste of resources and everything needs to move to new apartment builds. That way of thinking is what brought us the Trump Administration. The notion that if you work hard and have anything nice that you have more than your fair share is a notion that's become tiresome. But it's being sold to us by our idiot county council and by some of their shills on this board. [/quote]

Nobody is proposing to take away your single-family detached house.

Single-family-detached houses inside the Beltway are great for the people who  own them. If you own one, hooray for you!

Forbidding anything to be built in most areas inside the Beltway [i]except[/i] single-family-detached houses is not so great, though. And that's what needs to change. Property owners should be allowed to build a duplex, or a fourplex, on a property that is currently zoned for a single-family-detached house.[/quote]

[b]Why should they be allowed to do that?[/b] That would look like crap. You want to do that, then move to Takoma or some other municipality and get your town to arrange it for you. We have loads of apartments mixed in with our single family homes and that's enough. [/quote]

Because they own the property, and you don't.

And because there's demand for more housing units close in.

And because it makes sense for society in a whole lot of different ways to allow more housing units close in.

And because nothing bad is going to happen to people who live in detached single-family houses, if we have neighbors who live in duplexes or three-unit or four-unit buildings. It's not an infectious disease.[/quote]

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