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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, we also purchased locally grown radishes, and kale. Many farmers here , and in places like Amish country, use hoop houses.

It's almost like people who want to pave over everything don't understand so much about history or where their food comes from.

I also know of a number of blighted shopping centers in eastern MoCo, one right by Glenmont metro, that could be redeveloped into successful townhouse / condo / retail developments of there was any desire on the part of the owners. [/quote]

The Glenmont shopping center is actually doing very well. It just looks rundown. But yes, if the owners wanted to redevelop it, they could.[/quote]

I live down the street. There is a huge parking lot that is never even 1/4 full, and only a handful of decent small businesses. We go to the really good Korean barber shop and that's it. Lots and lots of parking lot available for redevelopment. [/quote]

The rent paid to the owners is evidently fine, thus no redevelopment. Yes, the parking lot is ridiculously large, but most parking lots in Montgomery County are. For that matter, the parking garages at Glenmont Metro are also ridiculously large.[/quote]

DP but the point is, the space is not well utilized and could be used to build new mixed use developments rather than [b]tearing down existing housing SFHs[/b].  The urban planning here is so terrible.[/quote]

This is already happening. It's just that the SFH is replaced by a gigantic SFM (M for McMansion). It makes a lot more sense to replace it with a duplex, same building size but two units instead of one.

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I live east county and that’s not as common here, yet anyway.  People in general don’t have the $$ to buy a starter home and then tear it down to build a McMansion.  They want to live in the starter home.[b] I think there is genuine concern that these starter homes would graduallly get sold off to developers who can pay all cash and then build duplexes that end up costing more because they’re new.[/b]  The newer townhouses near our neighborhood cost more than similarly sized older SFHs.  Which is fine! And I support building more complexes like that.  But it would be nice if it was in addition to, rather than at the expense of the older, relatively affordable housing stock.[/quote]

I am not a developer, but if it's profitable to tear the house down and build a new duplex, then it must surely also be profitable to tear the house down and build a new oneplex.[/quote]

It’s also might affect their bottom line when SFH owners decide to boycott anyone involved in building a duplex in their neighborhood.  People use the same builders, plumbers, designers, landscapers again and again in a particular area.  I hope that they are going to make a lot of money on that duplex.[/quote]

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