Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 09:02     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Bit mixed, prices sound great, like the idea of villages. But I wonder how viable it would be with having metro out there.


You are talking essentially about Clarkburg or The Kentlands.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 09:00     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
I'm a landowner in the ag reserve. My family and the people I know are proud of preserving some of the last greenspace and agricultural heritage of MoCo. I'm not selling out so you can build more sprawl. We should be redeveloping land around metro stations. What is going on with white flint? That is a blight.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 07:21     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’d love to develop a compound in West Virginia or FredCo close to I-70.


Um…a compound?


Yes. In case society collapses and you all in DC start looting
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 21:08     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Clarksburg is exactly what the OP describes. Villages with condos, townhomes, detached homes, with prices ranging from $250k to $1 million. Locationally, it is as if it is cut out of the AG.

Besides MPDU properties where can you find $250k properties there?


For $250 you can get a studio or small apartment. A one income person making $60-70k cannot afford that.


https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2219-Washington-Ave-APT-203-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/449354982_zpid/
290K on the DC border with good schools for a 2 bedroom- 250 out there seems reasonable.

Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 21:05     Subject: Re:My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
sounds like the kentlands or whatever that area out there is called.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 17:15     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:My idea would be to take 3 square miles out of the Agricultural Reserve for a village-based community. It would be developed over 20 years, with price ranges from $250,000 to $1 million for condos, townhomes, and houses. Apartments would also be included, though you would have to be careful with those—especially regarding the price range.

There would be five villages, each with their own elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as park-and-ride lots to access the Metro stop at the center of the town. As it expands, office space and higher-end shopping could become available.


You invented Levittown 80 years after the fact. Build affordable housing on a potato field with new schools
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 13:13     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:I’d love to develop a compound in West Virginia or FredCo close to I-70.


Um…a compound?
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 11:24     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:My idea would be to take 3 square miles out of the Agricultural Reserve for a village-based community. It would be developed over 20 years, with price ranges from $250,000 to $1 million for condos, townhomes, and houses. Apartments would also be included, though you would have to be careful with those—especially regarding the price range.

There would be five villages, each with their own elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as park-and-ride lots to access the Metro stop at the center of the town. As it expands, office space and higher-end shopping could become available.


Never happening.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 11:23     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Stop thinking about the agricultural reserve.
It is an agricultural reserve and cannot be touched by greedy developers.
Everyone doesn’t need to live in the same geographical location.
USA does have land.


Many of us go where the jobs are.


The jobs aren't in the ag reserve. It's a hell of a commute, no matter if you're headed to DC, Baltimore or Frederick.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 11:22     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
I’d love to develop a compound in West Virginia or FredCo close to I-70.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 06:48     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
I believe the guy who developed Columbia md around Columbia town center had this exact plan / vision - you can google it
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 02:26     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:Stop thinking about the agricultural reserve.
It is an agricultural reserve and cannot be touched by greedy developers.
Everyone doesn’t need to live in the same geographical location.
USA does have land.


Many of us go where the jobs are.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 02:22     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Stop thinking about the agricultural reserve.
It is an agricultural reserve and cannot be touched by greedy developers.
Everyone doesn’t need to live in the same geographical location.
USA does have land.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 22:21     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My idea would be to take 3 square miles out of the Agricultural Reserve for a village-based community. It would be developed over 20 years, with price ranges from $250,000 to $1 million for condos, townhomes, and houses. Apartments would also be included, though you would have to be careful with those—especially regarding the price range.

There would be five villages, each with their own elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as park-and-ride lots to access the Metro stop at the center of the town. As it expands, office space and higher-end shopping could become available.


Just build it on the east side of MoCo instead of using the Agricultural reserve. Great idea, and already near metro stops. The whole Glenmont shopping center area would work nicely for this.


Glenmont is actually a perfect place for such a development. This comment was spot on and most people just ignored it. Glenmont is basically the last affordable Metro stop left in MoCo and it has a large amount of land than can easily increase density without destroying natural areas. That Glenmont shopping center and surrounding neighborhoods are full of potential.


And for some reason, no one cares. I live nearby and a development like this would be wonderful in Glenmont.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 22:19     Subject: My idea for a new moco community thoughts?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s not sewer and water in the ag reserve. Everything would need septic and wells.

This. It’s physically not feasible in addition to being politically not feasible.


Clarksburg is encroaching on the AG and the infrastructure is being built out as they go, so it is not exactly not feasible. But that's is what Clarksburg basically is. The whole western side being built out is a new community in the AG.