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

[Anonymous]

DC homicides up year to date despite lockdown. There's only so much murder a city can have before UMC folks strongly consider suburb options

[Anonymous]

So its a repeat of the 60's/70's now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 4 making a big statement against developers with Brandon Todd's defeat. No one was more pro-developer than Todd.

This is interesting news. Ward 4 was already very sheltered because of the Mayor. That and they have the huge Walter Reed campus which can absorb development. Still trying to figure out how Howard Medical did not land any of that land. They probably wanted to be closer downtown.

This is not true at all. They are building condos everywhere. A big reason why Ward 4 will soon majority white.

Where in Ward 4 are they building condos, except for the Walter Reed development?

OMG. Drive up Georgia avenue. Look at all the dumpsters in front of single-family homes being gutted for condos. Turn on the TV. There are constant ads from developers offering to buy people's homes. The ads are unabashedly targeted at black homeowners -- no one in the ads considering selling their home is ever white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 4 making a big statement against developers with Brandon Todd's defeat. No one was more pro-developer than Todd.

This is interesting news. Ward 4 was already very sheltered because of the Mayor. That and they have the huge Walter Reed campus which can absorb development. Still trying to figure out how Howard Medical did not land any of that land. They probably wanted to be closer downtown.

This is not true at all. They are building condos everywhere. A big reason why Ward 4 will soon majority white.

Where in Ward 4 are they building condos, except for the Walter Reed development?

OMG. Drive up Georgia avenue. Look at all the dumpsters in front of single-family homes being gutted for condos. Turn on the TV. There are constant ads from developers offering to buy people's homes. The ads are unabashedly targeted at black homeowners -- no one in the ads considering selling their home is ever white.

I am not in Ward 4. With the current zoning rules, how are single family homes being turned into condos? The Density Bros/Bras keep swearing to us that this is IMPOSSIBLE under the current structure and under the new comp plan.

Also, once the gentle upscaling starts, it is specifically designed to protect AGAINST gentrification.

Seriously, I'd like to know if your statement is hyperbole or if there are SFH's being 'upzoned'.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 4 making a big statement against developers with Brandon Todd's defeat. No one was more pro-developer than Todd.

This is interesting news. Ward 4 was already very sheltered because of the Mayor. That and they have the huge Walter Reed campus which can absorb development. Still trying to figure out how Howard Medical did not land any of that land. They probably wanted to be closer downtown.

This is not true at all. They are building condos everywhere. A big reason why Ward 4 will soon majority white.

Where in Ward 4 are they building condos, except for the Walter Reed development?

OMG. Drive up Georgia avenue. Look at all the dumpsters in front of single-family homes being gutted for condos. Turn on the TV. There are constant ads from developers offering to buy people's homes. The ads are unabashedly targeted at black homeowners -- no one in the ads considering selling their home is ever white.

PP here. Where on Georgia? I don't live that far way but don't drive there often. I can tell you that on my neighborhood between Georgia and 16th, there are no condos being built--although I'm fine with putting more density on major streets with retail like Georgia. I hope at least some of these include affordable housing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 4 making a big statement against developers with Brandon Todd's defeat. No one was more pro-developer than Todd.

This is interesting news. Ward 4 was already very sheltered because of the Mayor. That and they have the huge Walter Reed campus which can absorb development. Still trying to figure out how Howard Medical did not land any of that land. They probably wanted to be closer downtown.

This is not true at all. They are building condos everywhere. A big reason why Ward 4 will soon majority white.

Where in Ward 4 are they building condos, except for the Walter Reed development?

Not in Crestwood and the side streets of Mr Pleasant. The mayor and her planning office are proposing more restrictions in these attractive parts of Ward 4 (“protect neighborhood character”), even as they erode restrictions on big development elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 4 making a big statement against developers with Brandon Todd's defeat. No one was more pro-developer than Todd.

This is interesting news. Ward 4 was already very sheltered because of the Mayor. That and they have the huge Walter Reed campus which can absorb development. Still trying to figure out how Howard Medical did not land any of that land. They probably wanted to be closer downtown.

This is not true at all. They are building condos everywhere. A big reason why Ward 4 will soon majority white.

Where in Ward 4 are they building condos, except for the Walter Reed development?

Not in Crestwood and the side streets of Mr Pleasant. The mayor and her planning office are proposing more restrictions in these attractive parts of Ward 4 (“protect neighborhood character”), even as they erode restrictions on big development elsewhere.

Again, for the 50th time in this thread, no changes are proposed in the Comp Plan to any single family zones.

This is true in Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

This is true in Crestwood, Mt Pleasant, Cleveland Park, Tenleytown etc.

This is true in the Mayors ward and every other ward of the city.

BTW Mt Pleasant is in Ward 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 4 making a big statement against developers with Brandon Todd's defeat. No one was more pro-developer than Todd.

This is interesting news. Ward 4 was already very sheltered because of the Mayor. That and they have the huge Walter Reed campus which can absorb development. Still trying to figure out how Howard Medical did not land any of that land. They probably wanted to be closer downtown.

This is not true at all. They are building condos everywhere. A big reason why Ward 4 will soon majority white.

Where in Ward 4 are they building condos, except for the Walter Reed development?

Not in Crestwood and the side streets of Mr Pleasant. The mayor and her planning office are proposing more restrictions in these attractive parts of Ward 4 (“protect neighborhood character”), even as they erode restrictions on big development elsewhere.

Again, for the 50th time in this thread, no changes are proposed in the Comp Plan to any single family zones.

This is true in Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.

This is true in Crestwood, Mt Pleasant, Cleveland Park, Tenleytown etc.

This is true in the Mayors ward and every other ward of the city.

BTW Mt Pleasant is in Ward 1.

Whoever this is, we were simply asking a question of the PP. Stop being so defensive. They are talking about actual SFH's potentially being converted. If that is true, that would be worth hearing.

On and as far as your claim the comp plan proposes no changes, this thread has already proven that a factually inaccurate statement. So unless you have some evidence to the contrary, all of the evidence thus far has illustrated that the Comp Plan does in fact make changes. Andrew Trueblood has said as much. Again, his quotes are here in the last few pages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 4 making a big statement against developers with Brandon Todd's defeat. No one was more pro-developer than Todd.

This is interesting news. Ward 4 was already very sheltered because of the Mayor. That and they have the huge Walter Reed campus which can absorb development. Still trying to figure out how Howard Medical did not land any of that land. They probably wanted to be closer downtown.

This is not true at all. They are building condos everywhere. A big reason why Ward 4 will soon majority white.

Where in Ward 4 are they building condos, except for the Walter Reed development?

OMG. Drive up Georgia avenue. Look at all the dumpsters in front of single-family homes being gutted for condos. Turn on the TV. There are constant ads from developers offering to buy people's homes. The ads are unabashedly targeted at black homeowners -- no one in the ads considering selling their home is ever white.

I am not in Ward 4. With the current zoning rules, how are single family homes being turned into condos? The Density Bros/Bras keep swearing to us that this is IMPOSSIBLE under the current structure and under the new comp plan.

Also, once the gentle upscaling starts, it is specifically designed to protect AGAINST gentrification.

Seriously, I'd like to know if your statement is hyperbole or if there are SFH's being 'upzoned'.

Thanks

This is obviously not true. Unless you're in Ward 3 or a few other wealthy areas, zoning rules in DC are extremely loose. And the city does a terrible job enforcing what few rules they are. DCRA almost always sides with developers, as do city council members like Brandon Todd, who build his career on carrying water for real estate developers. The entire system is built to favor developers over everyone else. A big reason Todd lost is because people in Ward 4 are sick of developers.

[Anonymous]

Not PP but yes there are pop ups that are converted into condos in Ward 4. Quite a few of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not PP but yes there are pop ups that are converted into condos in Ward 4. Quite a few of them.

+1

They are everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not PP but yes there are pop ups that are converted into condos in Ward 4. Quite a few of them.

My Ward 4 neighborhood is probably 95% SFHs, and I haven't seen any except one right on Georgia (which has different zoning than the rest of the neighborhood).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ward 4 making a big statement against developers with Brandon Todd's defeat. No one was more pro-developer than Todd.

This is interesting news. Ward 4 was already very sheltered because of the Mayor. That and they have the huge Walter Reed campus which can absorb development. Still trying to figure out how Howard Medical did not land any of that land. They probably wanted to be closer downtown.

This is not true at all. They are building condos everywhere. A big reason why Ward 4 will soon majority white.

Where in Ward 4 are they building condos, except for the Walter Reed development?

OMG. Drive up Georgia avenue. Look at all the dumpsters in front of single-family homes being gutted for condos. Turn on the TV. There are constant ads from developers offering to buy people's homes. The ads are unabashedly targeted at black homeowners -- no one in the ads considering selling their home is ever white.

I am not in Ward 4. With the current zoning rules, how are single family homes being turned into condos? The Density Bros/Bras keep swearing to us that this is IMPOSSIBLE under the current structure and under the new comp plan.

Also, once the gentle upscaling starts, it is specifically designed to protect AGAINST gentrification.

Seriously, I'd like to know if your statement is hyperbole or if there are SFH's being 'upzoned'.

Thanks

What gets forgotten in gentrification is when people (possibly black or lower middle class) CHOOSE to sell their homes and move. What incentive is the Mayor offering them to stay? Or is she just bulldozing existing density codes, bringing in developers waving checkbooks and then 5 years from now when all the demographics change will say, "But gentrification!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC homicides up year to date despite lockdown. There's only so much murder a city can have before UMC folks strongly consider suburb options

If there's no demand, then the developers won't build. Problem solved!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC homicides up year to date despite lockdown. There's only so much murder a city can have before UMC folks strongly consider suburb options

If there's no demand, then the developers won't build. Problem solved!

Or we could leave the perfectly good, existing Comp Plan in place and send OP’s proposal back for a rewrite on view of the pandemic impact on city planning. This is what the Committee of 100 on the Federal City advocates.