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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome to the club. Long story short if you bought a home in a single family home zoned neighborhood, you might end next to a new apartment building with no parking. If you are against it you will be called racist. Good luck!
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Arlington resident that wants a duplex next door, not a six plex on the 5000 sqft lot with no parking [/quote]

Could neighborhood associations form HOAs that protect the ability to develop multifamily housing? If so, that will definitely happen in many of the wealthier Bethesda/CC neighborhoods

I would pay a lot of money in annual HOA dues to accomplish this.[/quote]
HOAs do not have authority over zoning.[/quote]

So if zoning laws changed in Potomac, a homeowner in Avenel could build a duplex? Their HOA would allow this?

Trying to learn[/quote]

Typically HOA have restrictive covenants attached to the properties in the neighborhood that prevent people from doing this. You would need to look up the deed and title information for you house to know what is allowed. People that live in a neighborhood that does not have these limitations should look into establishing deed restrictions now with your neighbors, if you want to prevent this from occurring in your local area. [/quote]

Why would you voluntarily give up your right to do what you want with your property?[/quote]

[b]Because if you want to sell a SFH, you would benefit financially from being surrounded by SFHs rather than 4-5 story condo buildings. [/b] A SFH is a n-hood of SFHs is more desirable.  Now, of course, a buyer might buy to build a condo building rather than live in the SFH.  The end result is that those who want SFHs will move, taking their tax dollars with them.

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No, if you want to sell your property, you benefit financially from there being a wide range of potential uses than there being a very narrow range of potential uses.

Also, I am 100% certain that a detached single-unit house, next to a duplex, is still a detached single-unit house. If you're living in a detached single-unit house, and someone builds a duplex next door, your house will still be a detached single-unit house. A duplex next door will not infect your house with duplexitis. [/quote]

Because I want to live in an SFH area, and I am not interested in being surrounded by duplexes.  Then, I will live elsewhere.  And DMV, including NoVa and even DC, has plenty of options.  I note there is miles of underutilized commercial space along the Pike that could be apartments, condos, townhouses, etc.  [b]A substantial portion of that space will never be office buildings or retail space.  [/b]

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Almost all of this is already zoned for mixed-use (commercial/residential).

Also, if you don't live on a giant road like Rockville Pike, and you wouldn't want to live on a giant road like Rockville Pike, then you have no moral authority to insist that the only appropriate place for multi-unit housing is on giant roads like Rockville Pike.
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I have lived most of my adult life on 355 (where it’s called Wisconsin Avenue). Do I have enough moral authority for you?[/quote]

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