Mary Cheh not running for re-election?
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Why? You can put an ice rink below grade, then a school or retail on the first floor(s) and then housing above. Who is suggesting a once story ice rink structure? |
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Cathedral Commons COULD HAVE had significant affordable housing, but the NIMBYs chose to fight the development for a decade, rather than work with the property owner to get a better development with better amenities including affordable housing.
City Ridge was only subject to Large Tract Review, so is only adhering to the minimum. The Wardman is privately owned and will do the minimum. Upton Place is privately owned and will only do the minimum. Part of why people advocated for more density is so those minimums would be increased with new development. Ie if a 6 story building has 12 affordable unites, then with a 12 story building, there might be 25-30 affordable units. I suppose the PP will fully support adding on top of the Tenley library, which was fought against in 2008, or the Chevy Chase Community Center? |
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This doesn't seem very flattering
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/06/09/eric-goulet-ward3-dc-council-town-talker |
Anonymous
It's not. The Council hates Goulet. If you're friendly with any councilmember, simply ask them. None have been remotely measured in their dislike of him when speaking privately. And it has nothing to do with him being a budget person. It has to do with his character. He will be an outcast on the Council should he win, and unable to neither achieve nor thwart any policy initiatives. |
Anonymous
The Jack Evans endorsement came late, but perhaps not too late to make a difference. Can some enterprising soul print out some “Endorsed by Jack Evans” stickers to affix to his signs? |
Anonymous
I’d wear being disliked by Silverman or Nadeau as a badge of honor. |
Anonymous
All Goulet needs is a Vincent Orange endorsement to really corner the market on indicted councilmembers. He's already got Gray and Evans! (Note, charges dropped is not the same thing as "did nothing wrong.") |
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If I belonged to a competing campaign, I’d be printing that article out and dropping it through every door in Ward 3. |
Anonymous
Aren't all such developments "privately owned and doing the minimum"? This undercuts the notion that building more market rate units will really make a dent in affordable housing. ("Building up to trickle down."). And the problem is exacerbated by the fact that the sites that are often redeveloped for market rate housing tend to be smaller, older apartment buildings that are rent controlled. So even as we gain a handful of IZ units (not really affordable housing), we are losing workforce and fixed income housing stock every day. At best, we're just treading water. At worst, it's one step forward but two steps back. Cathedral Commons was no different. The Bozzuto project went through the review process in about a year, from concept to Planned Unit Development approval. Bozzuto never offered more IZ than the paltry statutory minimum and its zoning lawyer even argued that "doing the minimum" should count as an offsetting "amenity" in a project that had very few amenities compared to other PUDs. If Bowser wants to make a dent in affordable housing, especially in areas like Upper NW, then the District needs to put its own real estate, cash or incentives on the table. UDC offers one or more sites for affordable or workforce housing near a Metro. More significantly, Bowser passed on purchasing the Wardman Marriott site, also by a Metro, which was a huge missed opportunity. Otherwise, as you suggest, privately owned development will always "do the minimum." |
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Well, the city tried to add affordable housing on top of the Tenley Library and the neighbors fought it.
At the moment, IZ is the only way to add affordable housing to the options without public dollars, so it is better than nothing. But the city didn't have the money lying around to buy the Wardman. It just doesn't work that way. |
Anonymous
| Why has the GGW comments section migrated here? Is there so little traffic there that y’all are bored? |
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| Is it too late for some of the candidates to drop out and consolidate against Goulet? |
Anonymous
It was too late a month ago. But it was really said that Bergman, Duncan, Finley and Frumin couldn't figure it out. If Goulet wins, we can blame their egos for that. |
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I am not sure why you would blame Frumin. He has outraised everyone else in the race and most particularly by donors from Ward 3. He cannot ask or force others to come to the rational decision that the other campaigns are not as viable as his. |