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It is pretty clear to me that you do not live in Montgomery County or you are a recent arrival and don't know the county at all. [b]Can you point to any opposition to any recent new build townhomes?[/b] In addition to the established townhome communities in downtown Bethesda I already posted links to, just in the past few years - in addition to Rockledge - there have been the following new build that I am aware of:

And this is in addition to all of the established townhome communities around the area that I am just not going to bother pointed out to you. I am sorry that you are so deeply uninformed about our community. You may want to educate yourself.

I would also point out that the Rockledge is perfect for density precisely because of the location a lot could have been done. Super high rise towers with ground level shopping and dining, which would have brought some life to the neighborhood. If there was an area that the county should be looking to view with Tysons, it would be there. And yet....
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Like the Chelsea Court townhouses, for example? Every time there's a proposal to build attached houses in or even near a neighborhood with detached houses, the neighbors are up in arms about it. It's a longstanding and well-known cliche of Montgomery County development. There are even civic associations that exclude townhouse residents from membership.

And no, Montgomery County is not going to allow "super high rise towers" to be built in a remote, car-dependent location, nor would anybody be interested in building them even if they were allowed, because it wouldn't work out financially.

Tysons has the Silver Line. Rockledge has RideOn 47, RideOn 96, and the J1 Metrobus which willl almost certainly go away when the Purple Line opens.[/quote]

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