Soooo, how is high-density looking to everyone now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

Ding ding ding...we have a winner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

Ding ding ding...we have a winner.

So who does she serve? Didn't she want to be vice-president? Ambitious.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

Ding ding ding...we have a winner.

Just when you thought that the mayor couldn’t be any more shameless her zeal to, uh, please and service her favored developer clients, now her proposed budget includes up to 40-year tax abatements for Big Development in Ward 3, among other affluent areas. To qualify, a developer has to build a large project of at least 350 units, 30% of which should be considered “inclusionary zoning”. And ultimate discretion in choosing projects rests with the mayor. This means that someone with an area median income (AMI) of 80% could qualify for the IZ units, so they really would not be affordable housing for low income residents. Tax abatements and some more incentives are often criticized. But when they are used it is typically to incentivize and reduce risk for development in marginal neighborhoods, not in more affluent areas. In 40 years is considered a very, very Long time for a tax eLong time for a tax abatement. Apparently it is not enough to provide potential windfall opportunities to developers through comp plan changes to add lots of height and density in Ward 3. Now Bowser proposes to subsidize (effectively through revenue raised from other taxpayers) her developer cronies.

According to the Washington Business Journal,

“This looks like a developer giveaway that will ‘count’ as affordable housing investment [without] actually meeting the need,” Amber Harding, a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, tweeted Tuesday.

But City Administrator Rashad Young assured the council the program’s provisions are designed to be generous enough to attract interest from developers. With less of a tax incentive or more onerous requirements, the program won’t make a difference in these neighborhoods, he said.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

Why should Bowser and her cronies let a good crisis go to waste, especially when the Council is distracted with other things and residents are too scared to venture out and testify at hearings?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

Why should Bowser and her cronies let a good crisis go to waste, especially when the Council is distracted with other things and residents are too scared to venture out and testify at hearings?

Public participation is happening via Zoom etc, just like everywhere else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

Why should Bowser and her cronies let a good crisis go to waste, especially when the Council is distracted with other things and residents are too scared to venture out and testify at hearings?

Public participation is happening via Zoom etc, just like everywhere else.

Not very well. DC “hearings” so far have been like a clown car.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

Why should Bowser and her cronies let a good crisis go to waste, especially when the Council is distracted with other things and residents are too scared to venture out and testify at hearings?

Public participation is happening via Zoom etc, just like everywhere else.

There have been no public Comp Plan Zoom hearings to this point as you suggest. There has not been a schedule published for any yet either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

Why should Bowser and her cronies let a good crisis go to waste, especially when the Council is distracted with other things and residents are too scared to venture out and testify at hearings?

Public participation is happening via Zoom etc, just like everywhere else.

Our family participated in our Ward 3 ANC Zoom yesterday. Unfortunately, the Mayor changed the plan AFTER closing of public comment on the Comp Plan. Given the changes she made, public comment and the ANC comment period need to start over. Let her, the at-large reps, Mary Cheh and your ANC reps hear about this.

Participate people. She is gunning for Ward 3, for no apparent reason other than re-election $.

[Anonymous]

ANC 3E monthly meeting is tonight at 7:30. There is an open comment section (not public comment on the comp plan). You can start there, and demand a new phase of Public Comment on this changed Comp Plan. And share the same message with Mary Cheh. She needs to hear from all of us, before this is "brought before the Council". The big mystery is they haven't published that schedule yet.

ZOOM LINK at this URL:--

https://anc.dc.gov/event/anc-3e-monthly-meeting-may-21-zoom

[Anonymous]

Some of the DC Councilmembers are proposing to raise income taxes on joint filers earning $350k or more because of the District’s worsening budget situation. So the plan is to raise taxes on individual taxpayers, some of whom live on Ward 3, to finance long term tax breaks for big developers subsidize construction of tall and dense developments in Ward 3. Talk about socializing the cost of crony capitalism.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

Why should Bowser and her cronies let a good crisis go to waste, especially when the Council is distracted with other things and residents are too scared to venture out and testify at hearings?

Public participation is happening via Zoom etc, just like everywhere else.

Our family participated in our Ward 3 ANC Zoom yesterday. Unfortunately, the Mayor changed the plan AFTER closing of public comment on the Comp Plan. Given the changes she made, public comment and the ANC comment period need to start over. Let her, the at-large reps, Mary Cheh and your ANC reps hear about this.

Participate people. She is gunning for Ward 3, for no apparent reason other than re-election $.

Really? I watched a Ward 3 ANC meeting last night and there were no changes discussed after the comment period closed at that meeting. Maybe you can elaborate in case you are confused?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

Why should Bowser and her cronies let a good crisis go to waste, especially when the Council is distracted with other things and residents are too scared to venture out and testify at hearings?

Public participation is happening via Zoom etc, just like everywhere else.

Our family participated in our Ward 3 ANC Zoom yesterday. Unfortunately, the Mayor changed the plan AFTER closing of public comment on the Comp Plan. Given the changes she made, public comment and the ANC comment period need to start over. Let her, the at-large reps, Mary Cheh and your ANC reps hear about this.

Participate people. She is gunning for Ward 3, for no apparent reason other than re-election $.

Really? I watched a Ward 3 ANC meeting last night and there were no changes discussed after the comment period closed at that meeting. Maybe you can elaborate in case you are confused?

The mayor and OP say it’s the same document as was proposed in the fall with just some minor tweaks, so no need for a new comment period. At the same time they insist that the Plan has been developed to respond to Coronavirus and thus needs to be passed with urgency. Because Bowser is not too bright, she assumes that most voters are dummies, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Turns out Democrats are huge fans of gentrification. SORRY POOR PEOPLE! No one is going to defend you from scumbag developers. Not in DC.

Are you referring to the defenseless poor people who live near Guapo's?

This is one of the more cynical and frankly disgraceful arguments the Density Bros. make.

They make a big to-do about wanting to build more in some rich white neighborhood like Spring Valley. Not because they think it will make a difference, or because they think it will even happen (it won't, on either count). But because it distracts from how their policies are forcing low-income minorities en masse to leave the city in order to make way for luxury condos for white people.

DC has the worst gentrification problem in the country, and more poor people here get pushed out than anywhere else.

And no one cares.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-the-district-gentrification-means-widespread-displacement-report-says/2019/04/26/950a0c00-6775-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html?outputType=amp

Liberals are 100 percent in favor of gentrification. It's totally nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems rash and reckless to push this now in the midst of a global pandemic. Density is not desirable right now. The fact that the mayor is going full steam ahead on this suggests to me that she is in the pocket of the developers. Not a good look, especially during a time of crisis when leadership is so important.

It seems rash and reckless to you to continue with the basic functions of local government in the midst of a global pandemic? It doesn't seem rash and reckless to me.

Why should Bowser and her cronies let a good crisis go to waste, especially when the Council is distracted with other things and residents are too scared to venture out and testify at hearings?

Public participation is happening via Zoom etc, just like everywhere else.

Our family participated in our Ward 3 ANC Zoom yesterday. Unfortunately, the Mayor changed the plan AFTER closing of public comment on the Comp Plan. Given the changes she made, public comment and the ANC comment period need to start over. Let her, the at-large reps, Mary Cheh and your ANC reps hear about this.

Participate people. She is gunning for Ward 3, for no apparent reason other than re-election $.

Really? I watched a Ward 3 ANC meeting last night and there were no changes discussed after the comment period closed at that meeting. Maybe you can elaborate in case you are confused?

The mayor and OP say it’s the same document as was proposed in the fall with just some minor tweaks, so no need for a new comment period. At the same time they insist that the Plan has been developed to respond to Coronavirus and thus needs to be passed with urgency. Because Bowser is not too bright, she assumes that most voters are dummies, too.

No they have not done that - please provide the citation for that. Someone is hell bent on conflating things and it is really unclear why when what they are saying is provably untrue.