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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We also need to allow zoning for businesses in residential neighborhoods. Think about all the elderly people aging in isolation that don't leave the house as often as they should because it involves driving. If they were able to walk to get their groceries and stop to get coffee every day, it would do wonders for their mental and physical health, as well as have more people in the local community keeping their eye out on them every day. [/quote]

It’s true, I’m tired of driving to get my vape supplies and bondage gear.  Walkable medical marijuana distribution now![/quote]

Print this out when you're in your late 70s with cataracts and have to get on the Beltway to get your heart medication and groceries. You can't ask your children because they've moved to North Carolina when they couldn't come up with a 100k down payment for a McMansion near you. [/quote]

There was a speaker at the MoCo listening session in Chevy Chase that pointed out that there had been a request, not acted on, to address this and similar issues by allowing SFHs to be occupied by a second family for puroposes of their providing for the care of the first.  You see, there are alternatives, though they may not be ones that fill developers pockets.[/quote]

Jeebus this sounds bleak. Domestic servant as the "alternative" to filling developers pockets. Just let people build more housing.[/quote]

They were talking about allowing multi-family occupancy in a SFH for two households -- that of the older person in their 70s with cataracts (the example provided above) and the household of their now grown child (the one finding it hard to obtain housing in that neighborhood).

People currently can have live-in help as part of the household, but that wasn't the scenario posited about the child having moved to NC for lack of a McMansion down payment.[/quote]

I suppoae that ia density, but I don't know if advocates for density were talking about just living with your parents as a grown up. [/quote]

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