Housing proposed for Tenley Library/portion of Janney site

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.

It depends on your view what diversity is. It would certainly accelerate DCPS becoming anti-racist.

A school system exclusively populated by poor black and brown kids is neither diverse nor anti-racist.

Yes, this is what DC schools were like when I was coming up. They were not diverse or anti racist. They were underperforming and scary. Those of us who could went to parochials and privates. My parochial that I attended was all middle and lower middle class black families, fleeing .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.

It depends on your view what diversity is. It would certainly accelerate DCPS becoming anti-racist.

Oh stop. Racism is a two way street. Diversity is not and should not be the sole goal of any educational institution. Providing the best education possible for all kids should be. “Anti/racist - yawn!

Admittedly it is hard for the DC government to declare itself as anti-racist, when just a few years ago they used taxpayer money to erect a prominent statue of Marion Barry in from of the Wilson Building. Barry’s racist statements about Asians while in public office were deplorable.

[Anonymous]

When is a decision going to made about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When is a decision going to made about this?

The regulatory change that Cheh backed, to increase the planned density of the library and adjacent parcels, already passed the DC Council. With Cheh making housing at the site a priority, it simply depends on DC offering sufficiently favorable terms to a private developer to build several floors of residences on top of the library. How much of the Janney playground DC is prepared to offer up for an entrance, drop off and loading zone for the building is TBD.

[Anonymous]

Can it be done without impacting the playground? Or can the school move the garden to the hill on the other side to shift things around?

Maybe have a rooftop garden?

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Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.

It depends on your view what diversity is. It would certainly accelerate DCPS becoming anti-racist.

A school system exclusively populated by poor black and brown kids is neither diverse nor anti-racist.

Yes, this is what DC schools were like when I was coming up. They were not diverse or anti racist. They were underperforming and scary. Those of us who could went to parochials and privates. My parochial that I attended was all middle and lower middle class black families, fleeing .

Huh. Define ‘brown’ because that encompasses a lot of people.

And there aren’t as many Asian people in DC. Adding whites does help with diversity but you all tend to stick to your own. Like many groups.

Also having less whites may make it less racist but the goal is to help white children too. If they aren’t around other people how will they learn? It is not the same for POC children because they are bombarded with white figures in the media and toys.

Just to make sure people don’t think I’m saying this is exclusive to white people, similarly when I was young and visiting family in South Korea and neighborhood boy rubbed my skin and asked why the ‘dirt’ wouldn’t rub off. He did not know I was part Mexican and sometimes Mexican people are brown. There’s less brown people there and in the media.

No exposure causes ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.

It depends on your view what diversity is. It would certainly accelerate DCPS becoming anti-racist.

A school system exclusively populated by poor black and brown kids is neither diverse nor anti-racist.

Yes, this is what DC schools were like when I was coming up. They were not diverse or anti racist. They were underperforming and scary. Those of us who could went to parochials and privates. My parochial that I attended was all middle and lower middle class black families, fleeing .

Huh. Define ‘brown’ because that encompasses a lot of people.

And there aren’t as many Asian people in DC. Adding whites does help with diversity but you all tend to stick to your own. Like many groups.

Also having less whites may make it less racist but the goal is to help white children too. If they aren’t around other people how will they learn? It is not the same for POC children because they are bombarded with white figures in the media and toys.

Just to make sure people don’t think I’m saying this is exclusive to white people, similarly when I was young and visiting family in South Korea and neighborhood boy rubbed my skin and asked why the ‘dirt’ wouldn’t rub off. He did not know I was part Mexican and sometimes Mexican people are brown. There’s less brown people there and in the media.

No exposure causes ignorance.

There are plenty of ways that our city can foment "exposure" without misguided and doomed to backfire communist like techniques . Charter schools and voucher choices were one of the best ways to broaden educational-geographical offerings in our city in a long time, along with the lottery system. Folks have far more say and.mobility in their kids choices, without being forced into something. As to housing, the city could use their excess funds for specific groups of people (long time residents, rent to buy etc) rather than just encouraging rampant building that will provide more housing to yuppies from Arlington .

[Anonymous]

If the plan was to build up, why no underground parking garage? So tired of the "limiting parking will limit cars" argument. No, it will cause folks to circle the block looking for parking and emit fumes. I say this as a non driver by choice who believes that building public transport and ride share etc, NOT .limiting parking, will encourage others to make the same choice. Will busing residents be contractually banned.from.owning cars?

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Anonymous wrote:If the plan was to build up, why no underground parking garage? So tired of the "limiting parking will limit cars" argument. No, it will cause folks to circle the block looking for parking and emit fumes. I say this as a non driver by choice who believes that building public transport and ride share etc, NOT .limiting parking, will encourage others to make the same choice. Will busing residents be contractually banned.from.owning cars?

Ha! Developers and their Smart Growth industry shills always say that they don't need off-street parking because all of the new residents will take Metro, ride bikes or use those cute little scooters that block the sidewalks. Oh, and no parking will keep costs down so that the developers will pass the cost savings along to buyers and renters, of course. But if you suggest then that the new deveopment be ineligible for RPP because it is car-less, you will get pushback, because their real intent is to push the parking costs onto the public in the form of more demand for street parking. It's all talking points and spin for them.

[Anonymous]

It kind and of has to be ineligible for parking because the library "foundation" was built with only the tiny side parking that barely contains a couple of library workers or patrons, and is mostly a de facto encampment. So any apartments will have to come with a no parking sticker addendum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It kind and of has to be ineligible for parking because the library "foundation" was built with only the tiny side parking that barely contains a couple of library workers or patrons, and is mostly a de facto encampment. So any apartments will have to come with a no parking sticker addendum.

Is Albemarle St. zoned for RPP?

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Anonymous wrote:It kind and of has to be ineligible for parking because the library "foundation" was built with only the tiny side parking that barely contains a couple of library workers or patrons, and is mostly a de facto encampment. So any apartments will have to come with a no parking sticker addendum.

Is Albemarle St. zoned for RPP?

Pretty sure it's all meters in the surrounding blocks.

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Anonymous wrote:It kind and of has to be ineligible for parking because the library "foundation" was built with only the tiny side parking that barely contains a couple of library workers or patrons, and is mostly a de facto encampment. So any apartments will have to come with a no parking sticker addendum.

Is Albemarle St. zoned for RPP?

Pretty sure it's all meters in the surrounding blocks.

No. At st Columba’s down it is zoned. Such a shame to see more people jammed into one neighborhood. So unnecessary but for political points.

[Anonymous]

Oh come on folks, there should be high density by metro stations. I’m not saying it will all go smoothly but I just don’t see the blanket argument increasing density on a busy road that also has busses and metro.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh come on folks, there should be high density by metro stations. I’m not saying it will all go smoothly but I just don’t see the blanket argument increasing density on a busy road that also has busses and metro.

I guess it matters if you own a home there. You must not.