Housing proposed for Tenley Library/portion of Janney site

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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 .

Vouchers were created as a way for middle class white people to flee integrated public schools. They are 100% a tool for supporting segregation.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2017/07/12/435629/racist-origins-private-school-vouchers/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/do-private-school-vouchers-promote-segregation/520392/

Integrating public schools has nothing to do with communism. Equality of opportunity is one of the central organizing ideas of the United States.

[Anonymous]

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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 .

Vouchers were created as a way for middle class white people to flee integrated public schools. They are 100% a tool for supporting segregation.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2017/07/12/435629/racist-origins-private-school-vouchers/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/do-private-school-vouchers-promote-segregation/520392/

Integrating public schools has nothing to do with communism. Equality of opportunity is one of the central organizing ideas of the United States.

lOL LOL LOL my parochial school.in DC was all black. Show me one white person in DC using vouchers. You are hilarious! And I have zero issue with anyone 'fleeing' public schools. The Obama's and Clinton's sure did!

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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.

Compounding it by not building parking for these buildings is a problem. They will have to forbid the residents RPPs and encourage them to use metro I guess

[Anonymous]

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.

So Capitol Hill should be replaced by tall, dense buildings like at the Navy Yard? Capitol Hill has two Metro stations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
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 .

Vouchers were created as a way for middle class white people to flee integrated public schools. They are 100% a tool for supporting segregation.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2017/07/12/435629/racist-origins-private-school-vouchers/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/do-private-school-vouchers-promote-segregation/520392/

Integrating public schools has nothing to do with communism. Equality of opportunity is one of the central organizing ideas of the United States.

NP. You may view this as equality of opportunity for the kids, but from the parents’ generation’s perspective, you are equalizing outcomes, since their ability to move into a desirable neighborhood and send their kids to a desirable school is an important outcome of their life’s work. Taking that away is absolutely a move that is reminiscent of socialist strategies of forced equalization. Nobody with options will submit to it. History has shown this over and over again.

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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.

So Capitol Hill should be replaced by tall, dense buildings like at the Navy Yard? Capitol Hill has two Metro stations.

Is tenleytown a historic district?

[Anonymous]

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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.

So Capitol Hill should be replaced by tall, dense buildings like at the Navy Yard? Capitol Hill has two Metro stations.

Is tenleytown a historic district?

It for bablt should be..some of the architecture ranging from deco to low main street is pretty cool and "save' worthy!

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Anonymous wrote:Too bad it can’t be Section 8.

Any rental housing can be section 8, since DC forbids discriminating based on source of income.

This isn’t really true. I am a landlord in DC. DCRA sets the maximum rental price they will pay in each neighborhood and I have found that it is always below the actual market rate. Just to use sample numbers, I will advertise a house for $3000/month and DCRA will only give a section 8 voucher in that neighborhood for that size house up to $2800. I will have lots of interest from Section 8 voucher holders, but cannot and will not rent to any of them because I will be able to rent the house for the full rental price easily to someone without a voucher. Section 8 voucher holders are not allowed to supplement the voucher or split the house with a non-voucher holder. This is cause to lose their voucher. I have found this to be true in most neighborhoods in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Too bad it can’t be Section 8.

Any rental housing can be section 8, since DC forbids discriminating based on source of income.

This isn’t really true. I am a landlord in DC. DCRA sets the maximum rental price they will pay in each neighborhood and I have found that it is always below the actual market rate. Just to use sample numbers, I will advertise a house for $3000/month and DCRA will only give a section 8 voucher in that neighborhood for that size house up to $2800. I will have lots of interest from Section 8 voucher holders, but cannot and will not rent to any of them because I will be able to rent the house for the full rental price easily to someone without a voucher. Section 8 voucher holders are not allowed to supplement the voucher or split the house with a non-voucher holder. This is cause to lose their voucher. I have found this to be true in most neighborhoods in DC.

Wow, that was not our experience at all. Folks had very high vouchers in there 5-6 thousands. DC has also overpaid for apartment units to be flipped from rent control to vouchers for homeless for example with over market rate, but the apartments then lose their rent control status. There is a whole thread on an apt building on Conn Avenue where this occurred. Basically, DC overpaid to lessen affordable housing stock in the city by creating a weird loophole that achieved a short term, but objectionable long term, goal.

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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.

So Capitol Hill should be replaced by tall, dense buildings like at the Navy Yard? Capitol Hill has two Metro stations.

Is tenleytown a historic district?

Should Capitol Hill be a historic district? I say that designation should be removed in the blocks surrounding Capitol South and Eastern Market so it can be upzoned. Pennsylvania Avenue is a huge missed opportunity for density. Funny how no one clamors for it there.

[Anonymous]

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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.

So Capitol Hill should be replaced by tall, dense buildings like at the Navy Yard? Capitol Hill has two Metro stations.

Is tenleytown a historic district?

Should Capitol Hill be a historic district? I say that designation should be removed in the blocks surrounding Capitol South and Eastern Market so it can be upzoned. Pennsylvania Avenue is a huge missed opportunity for density. Funny how no one clamors for it there.

Do you think because it is National Register historic district? No one "clamors" for it because building yet more dense mixed-use generic is not compatible with a low-scale historic district.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

So Capitol Hill should be replaced by tall, dense buildings like at the Navy Yard? Capitol Hill has two Metro stations.

Is tenleytown a historic district?

It for bablt should be..some of the architecture ranging from deco to low main street is pretty cool and "save' worthy!

There is a sliver of Tenleytown that is an historic district. It touches Wisconsin and extends northeast along Grant Road.

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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.

As part of the legislation that Cheh pushed and the Council passed that effectively up zones the library site for a tall building, along with other parcels, Cheh also supported a provision that designates much of Tenleytown and AU Park east and west of Wisconsin Avenue as a Wisconsin corridor special study area. This is the predicate to the Office of Planning's proposal to enable "gentle density" within a half-mile of a Metro stop and a quarter-mile of a bus route. Gentle density is very gentle sounding, but it means that instead of the tear-down in AU Park being replaced by a larger house on a side street, a developer could build a 4 story apartment building as a matter of right.

[Anonymous]

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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.

As part of the legislation that Cheh pushed and the Council passed that effectively up zones the library site for a tall building, along with other parcels, Cheh also supported a provision that designates much of Tenleytown and AU Park east and west of Wisconsin Avenue as a Wisconsin corridor special study area. This is the predicate to the Office of Planning's proposal to enable "gentle density" within a half-mile of a Metro stop and a quarter-mile of a bus route. Gentle density is very gentle sounding, but it means that instead of the tear-down in AU Park being replaced by a larger house on a side street, a developer could build a 4 story apartment building as a matter of right.

This sux!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

As part of the legislation that Cheh pushed and the Council passed that effectively up zones the library site for a tall building, along with other parcels, Cheh also supported a provision that designates much of Tenleytown and AU Park east and west of Wisconsin Avenue as a Wisconsin corridor special study area. This is the predicate to the Office of Planning's proposal to enable "gentle density" within a half-mile of a Metro stop and a quarter-mile of a bus route. Gentle density is very gentle sounding, but it means that instead of the tear-down in AU Park being replaced by a larger house on a side street, a developer could build a 4 story apartment building as a matter of right.

This sux!

Yes, it does. Thanks, Cheh.