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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree someone has to pay for the parking so I guess the question is whether the benefit to the property owners is worth the cost.  There’s a lot of UMC families with disposable income in the Bradley hills, wyngate, ashburton and KP neighborhoods that are basically equidistant between the Bethesda retail and the Rockville retail areas.   One has free and relatively convenient parking, the other less o.  (I do tend to think that Bethesda has enough parking for weekends, at least in the Bethesda row area), but it’s worse on the other side of Bethesda and terrible on weedkdays). [/quote]

Well, then county residents have a choice. Some can live in downtown Bethesda and walk to their amenities, others can live in the neighborhoods you describe and drive to Rockville Pike and park for free to get their Amenities. I am pretty sure Bethesda will do just fine either way. [/quote]

DP.  But Bethesda won't.  Bethesda relies to a significant degree on people who cannot walk there.  There simply aren't enough people in walking distance to sustain the vibrant area we seem to all want.  If it got to the point that people 2 mikes from Bethesda really didn't go there, Bethesda could not sustain itself.

Look at this way, Bethesda garages are currently packed with people throughout the week and weekend.  Those thousands and thousands of people are all shopping, eating, working, etc.  If parking were curtailed so that only half that number could come into Bethesda, you really don't think that would have an adverse impact?[/quote]

If they keep replacing the surface parking with underground parking and it is still as heavily utilized as you suggest, AND there are all the new residents AND there is the purple line, I think Bethesda will be more than fine.[/quote]

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