Any momentum to preserve open space?

[Anonymous]

There are giant houses popping up everywhere on green space. So many farms being turned into housing developments. It’s so sad.

[Anonymous]

I think the GGWash people will not rest until every last piece of green space in DC is turned into towers of steel, concrete and glass

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the GGWash people will not rest until every last piece of green space in DC is turned into towers of steel, concrete and glass

That’s more like Florida than DC. DC has more parks and green space than most other cities in the USA.

[Anonymous]

There’s nothing I hate seeing more than a bunch of McMansions on what used to be a grassy plain next to an interstate.

[Anonymous]

The density gang would like to see open space turned into luxury apartments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are giant houses popping up everywhere on green space. So many farms being turned into housing developments. It’s so sad.

Maybe you should start a group that will create more parks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are giant houses popping up everywhere on green space. So many farms being turned into housing developments. It’s so sad.

Maybe you should start a group that will create more parks.

Why can’t we just have grassy open fields?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are giant houses popping up everywhere on green space. So many farms being turned into housing developments. It’s so sad.

Maybe you should start a group that will create more parks.

Why can’t we just have grassy open fields?

Nope. Agree with the ggw comment. Occasionally we'll get a pocket park, or urban park. A place for adults to gather and sit with a coffee, but not a place for kids to run around and play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the GGWash people will not rest until every last piece of green space in DC is turned into towers of steel, concrete and glass

That’s more like Florida than DC. DC has more parks and green space than most other cities in the USA.

Those DC parks and green spaces and open spaces all have targets on them. Especially if they are anywhere near a metro stop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the GGWash people will not rest until every last piece of green space in DC is turned into towers of steel, concrete and glass

That’s more like Florida than DC. DC has more parks and green space than most other cities in the USA.

Those DC parks and green spaces and open spaces all have targets on them. Especially if they are anywhere near a metro stop

Could you please list the parks in DC that have been de-parked and had towers of steel, concrete, and glass built on them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The density gang would like to see open space turned into luxury apartments.

Why are you this confused?

Density advocates want more density in urban areas so that housing doesn’t eat up every last green space that's left. Anti-sprawl. You literally have things completely backwards!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The density gang would like to see open space turned into luxury apartments.

Why are you this confused?

Density advocates want more density in urban areas so that housing doesn’t eat up every last green space that's left. Anti-sprawl. You literally have things completely backwards!

Density advocates love to talk about “induced demand” in the context of building roads. But they never mention the induced demand caused by building more housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The density gang would like to see open space turned into luxury apartments.

Why are you this confused?

Density advocates want more density in urban areas so that housing doesn’t eat up every last green space that's left. Anti-sprawl. You literally have things completely backwards!

Density advocates love to talk about “induced demand” in the context of building roads. But they never mention the induced demand caused by building more housing.

Not true at all. For example, people are leaving urban areas, because they can't afford to live there, because demand so greatly exceeds supply. Including college graduates.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/superstar-cities-thrived-on-college-graduates-now-theyre-leaving/

Now, I don't think that's good for the future of the DC area, and I think we need a lot more housing, and I think it needs to go in the city parts of the DC (including DC) instead of on former farmland - but maybe your goal is depopulation, which has certainly been good for creating more open space in cities like Detroit and St. Louis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The density gang would like to see open space turned into luxury apartments.

Why are you this confused?

Density advocates want more density in urban areas so that housing doesn’t eat up every last green space that's left. Anti-sprawl. You literally have things completely backwards!

Density advocates love to talk about “induced demand” in the context of building roads. But they never mention the induced demand caused by building more housing.

People have to live somewhere and get to work somehow. The idea density advocates have is that it's better for more people to live closer to job centers and use available public transit than live in new builds that used to be farm fields in Manassas and Frederick and drive. The difference between induced demand for roads and housing is that there is a better alternative to driving in individual cars that we want to encourage and build infrastructure for. I don't think the housing alternative of exurban new builds is better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The density gang would like to see open space turned into luxury apartments.

No, we would like to see places that already have buildings be upzoned and to eliminate single family zoning. It is in the name "density gang" - we want density not sprawl, though dense sprawl is better than no sprawl.

As for luxury, you clearly don't know what you are talking about. Luxury is a marketing tactic - rent control buildings across DC are called luxury and are definitely not luxury.