DC Council is pro-development

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

It would probably be easier, and make more people happy, to just get rid of all the bike lanes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's Orwellian how Bowser talks about developers as if they are oppressed.

When restrictions are placed on developers, its people who need the product developers create (housing) who are harmed.

Yes, what the city really needs is more shoddily made condos built by shady house flippers.

You don't have to buy one if you don't want to.

Buyer beware! If your house collapses and kills your entire family because the city wasn't enforcing its housing laws -- well, no one made you buy that house now, did they?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's Orwellian how Bowser talks about developers as if they are oppressed.

When restrictions are placed on developers, its people who need the product developers create (housing) who are harmed.

Yes, what the city really needs is more shoddily made condos built by shady house flippers.

You don't have to buy one if you don't want to.

Buyer beware! If your house collapses and kills your entire family because the city wasn't enforcing its housing laws -- well, no one made you buy that house now, did they?

I am sure the city is enforcing code on structural soundness. If there is evidence they are not go complain about that. Not about zoning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

You need to get outside your neighborhood. DC is a leafy city with many places that don't have reliable public transportation or a grocery store nearby. My commute is more expensive and more than double the time when I take public transport.

-DC resident.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

It would probably be easier, and make more people happy, to just get rid of all the bike lanes.

AMEN

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

It would probably be easier, and make more people happy, to just get rid of all the bike lanes.

AMEN

I suspect most people in D.C. hate the bike lanes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

It would probably be easier, and make more people happy, to just get rid of all the bike lanes.

AMEN

I suspect most people in D.C. hate the bike lanes.

Opinion polls don't show that - most DC residents are smart enough to understand reducing driving benefits everyone including people who drive. It is suburbanites who have made bad housing choices who are mostly pissed that they can't drive as fast as they want to who complain.

In any case DC literally has a few miles of protected bike lanes so getting rid of them will accomplish nothing and just put more cars on the roads.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

You need to get outside your neighborhood. DC is a leafy city with many places that don't have reliable public transportation or a grocery store nearby. My commute is more expensive and more than double the time when I take public transport.

-DC resident.

This is not true. Almost the entirety of DC is within walking distance of a one-seat bus ride that takes you downtown. Where I live in Ward 3 I am walking distance to 4 bus routes that go different parts of downtown.

Now you may think riding the bus is beneath you or ignorant about where it goes but it is in fact an option for most DC residents.

As for grocery stores most DC neighborhoods in fact have multiple grocery stores within walking distance - there is something of a food desert in Wards 7 & 8 and also one in Palisades since the knuckleheads there fought a new Safeway but this is also sort of a stupid point as grocery delivery is now possible in all of DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's Orwellian how Bowser talks about developers as if they are oppressed.

When restrictions are placed on developers, its people who need the product developers create (housing) who are harmed.

Well, they're in luck because in DC, our elected officials allow developers to do almost anything they want.

What a stupid post.

The DC Council has almost nothing to do with day to day development in DC - most projects are built matter of right based on laws that are decades old but the handful of projects that require approval are cleared by the Zoning Commission and the Board of Zoning Adjustment which are partially appointed by the Mayor and approved by the DC Council.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

You need to get outside your neighborhood. DC is a leafy city with many places that don't have reliable public transportation or a grocery store nearby. My commute is more expensive and more than double the time when I take public transport.

-DC resident.

This is not true. Almost the entirety of DC is within walking distance of a one-seat bus ride that takes you downtown. Where I live in Ward 3 I am walking distance to 4 bus routes that go different parts of downtown.

Now you may think riding the bus is beneath you or ignorant about where it goes but it is in fact an option for most DC residents.

As for grocery stores most DC neighborhoods in fact have multiple grocery stores within walking distance - there is something of a food desert in Wards 7 & 8 and also one in Palisades since the knuckleheads there fought a new Safeway but this is also sort of a stupid point as grocery delivery is now possible in all of DC.

Please. Public transportation in DC is not that great. Some of us don't have two hours to get to work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

It would probably be easier, and make more people happy, to just get rid of all the bike lanes.

AMEN

I suspect most people in D.C. hate the bike lanes.

Opinion polls don't show that - most DC residents are smart enough to understand reducing driving benefits everyone including people who drive. It is suburbanites who have made bad housing choices who are mostly pissed that they can't drive as fast as they want to who complain.

In any case DC literally has a few miles of protected bike lanes so getting rid of them will accomplish nothing and just put more cars on the roads.

Bike lanes encourage stupidity. I see people on two wheels taking incredible risks with their lives, as if their little helmets are going to make a difference if they're hit by a 2,000 pound car.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

It would probably be easier, and make more people happy, to just get rid of all the bike lanes.

AMEN

I suspect most people in D.C. hate the bike lanes.

Opinion polls don't show that - most DC residents are smart enough to understand reducing driving benefits everyone including people who drive. It is suburbanites who have made bad housing choices who are mostly pissed that they can't drive as fast as they want to who complain.

In any case DC literally has a few miles of protected bike lanes so getting rid of them will accomplish nothing and just put more cars on the roads.

Bike lanes encourage stupidity, as well as rage, in their opponents.

FTFY

B

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

One weird trick to stop stressing out about traffic and parking.... stop driving your damn car everywhere!

Personal vehicles shouldn’t even be allowed in the city limits at all. That will never happen, but I give zero f***s about making life easier for MD car commuters by limiting development so they can have low traffic and easy parking.

Ah, but ask a DC developer who is seek a waiver from meager zoning requirements to provide off street parking whether they will covenant that the residents will not get RPP street parking, to avoid an additional burden on overtaxed streets. The theory, according to smart growth advocates, is that if a developer saves the cost of building off street parking, substantial savings can be passed on to renters and buyers in the form of lower prices. That affordability discount is worth any inconvenience that new renters or buyers may face in being ineligible for RPP. This is what Arlington County and many other jurisdictions require for parking-less or parking-lite development projects. It also encouraged new residents in such developments to use transit that the developer touts in favor of regulatory relief. But if you ask a DC developer if they will commit to no RPP in exchange for relief from providing off-street parking, they hem and haw, look down at their well-cobbled (non-transit using) shoes and simply try to dodge the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem isn't that they want to build housing, the problem is that there is not any follow on plan. How to manage the resulting problems with traffic, over crowded schools, parking, etc.

It's "yes" to development but no planning for anything more than the developer's projects.

The only way for the District to grow is through more density. That is what developers do, so ya, unless we want a stagnant economy, what do you propose?

That said, the traffic isn't DC residents, it is MD and VA commuters. Maybe invest more in mass transit to address that issue. Maybe invest more more bike infrastructure to address that issue. There is finite parking which is mostly underutilized. Building MORE parking just attracts more cars. You complain about "traffic" but want more auto-inducing parking? That doesn't make sense.

The school overcrowding can be solved by redrawing boundaries. Want to take a look at the 50+ page threads on that topic?