Rock Creek Park needs to be developed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is concerned about housing and not having enough, why isn't' the city developing Rock Creek Park? I'm not saying build over the entire thing, but take a sizeable chunk of it and build affordable housing.

Why not Wards 7 and 8?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is concerned about housing and not having enough, why isn't' the city developing Rock Creek Park? I'm not saying build over the entire thing, but take a sizeable chunk of it and build affordable housing.

Why not Wards 7 and 8?

Because Rock Creek Park is not in Wards 7 and 8. And Rock Creek is by far the best plot of undeveloped land left in DC.

[Anonymous]

Think bigger! How about the National Mall? Or Arlington Cemetery?

Lets not be silly.

[Anonymous]

It’s funny how the pro-development folk get all NIMBY real quick when their amenities are threatened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a housing emergency. There should be nothing off the table.

Cool story bro. Knock down your house, put up an apartment building, and fill it with illegals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a housing emergency. There should be nothing off the table.

Cool story bro. Knock down your house, put up an apartment building, and fill it with illegals.

A more accurate acronym for them would be YIYBY, because they never actually want any development in their own backyards. It's always someone else's backyard. Always.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how the pro-development folk get all NIMBY real quick when their amenities are threatened.

But where would I ride my bicycle? They ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s funny how the pro-development folk get all NIMBY real quick when their amenities are threatened.

But where would I ride my bicycle? They ask.

Under a dump truck on 23rd St?

[Anonymous]

Walter Reed has a ton of new housing options coming online in 2022-2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not a bad idea. It's an awful idea. The preservation of parkland has both an immense value intrinsic value that cannot be replicated else in where in the District (e.g., public health, recreation). The land would also be extremely expensive to develop given the topography and propensity to flood.

There is plenty of land on either side of Rock Creek Park and throughout the District/MSA that can support denser housing.

There are currently several suboptimal land uses at Rock Creek Park, like the horse stables that could easily be converted to housing without having any impact on parkland. There are no topographical issues to development of the horse stables.

Having this land set aside for a park will be useless in the future if we do nothing to stop climate change now.

Seems that everyone turns into a NIMBY when it come to the stuff they enjoy.

This is where I stopped reading this thread... you want to eliminate the green space... to stop climate change?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not a bad idea. It's an awful idea. The preservation of parkland has both an immense value intrinsic value that cannot be replicated else in where in the District (e.g., public health, recreation). The land would also be extremely expensive to develop given the topography and propensity to flood.

There is plenty of land on either side of Rock Creek Park and throughout the District/MSA that can support denser housing.

There are currently several suboptimal land uses at Rock Creek Park, like the horse stables that could easily be converted to housing without having any impact on parkland. There are no topographical issues to development of the horse stables.

Having this land set aside for a park will be useless in the future if we do nothing to stop climate change now.

Seems that everyone turns into a NIMBY when it come to the stuff they enjoy.

This is where I stopped reading this thread... you want to eliminate the green space... to stop climate change?

There are plenty of parking lots in ward 3 that should be made into housing first.

[Anonymous]

the city should start buying up homes and apartment buildings so it can tear them down and turn them into parks. we need more green space.

[Anonymous]

OP, this is hands down the dumbest idea I have seen on DCUM and thats saying a lot.
Why don't we just develop all of RC that is in Mont County and start there.

[Anonymous]

You all should move to Germantown Or Centreville. You’ll get inexpensive housing. You have no rights to live wherever you want even if you can’t afford it. You want to destroy this city just so you can say you live in Ward 3. Maybe get a better job?

[Anonymous]

Nope. Not my kind of esoteric policy, here. I like the international airport being built right next to a public high school in Takoma Park a lot better. Way more dynamic and positive downstream for residents.