tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post6482407915238636459..comments2008-12-27T11:52:33.529-05:00dan reed!http://www.blogger.com/profile/10594208011755406956noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-24012585136667172862008-12-27T11:52:00.000-05:002008-12-27T11:52:00.000-05:00I could see this in say the townhomes near the SS or Wheaton metros - those bottom-floor garages could open up at certain times and sell arts and crafts, tailor shops, bike repair, etc. - made by the owners or rented out to others. Could be a nice street fair feel to it. Would I travel out to White Oak or far-flun hoods for this? No. But for close-in neighborhoods by public transit, it could work.WashingtonGardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03950523974356540767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-20226558498104683002008-12-20T19:29:00.000-05:002008-12-20T19:29:00.000-05:00I don't agree. At some point, you need access to a customer base. Even if your rent is miniscule, you still need customers to make something worth doing. Small remote spaces don't offer much in the way of retail possibilities even if they are fine for home-office related work.Richard Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765521217875752850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-75614678107888499672008-12-18T22:39:00.000-05:002008-12-18T22:39:00.000-05:00've been promoting this for years now.<BR/><BR/>What genuinely sucks about MoCo suburbia is that it has all of the crowding and traffic of the city, but you can't just walk around the corner or just down the block to buy something, as you could in the city.<BR/><BR/>Rather, you tend to be forced to shopping malls where you have to compete for parking. In general this might rightly be said to be disagreeable unless you're the sort of person who thrives in crowds of strangers. But for we who like to have a nice little corner store where we know and are known by the proprietors -- rather than being disrespected as chumps by the corporate hireling staff -- we hate the shopping centers and would rather walk downstairs to the little shop next door.<BR/><BR/>Semi-unzoned but permitted: that's the way to turn a crappy overgrown suburbia --where you have to drive 5 miles to get a bag of chips -- into a walkable urbanized neighborhood with people on the street on foot building community, rather than leaving it a sterile wasteland full of strangers in cars.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting this, Mr Reed.Thomas Hardmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951423786343852055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-13395505734472310532008-12-18T22:37:00.000-05:002008-12-18T22:37:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.klaatuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01650828121446162161noreply@blogger.com