Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

34 Democrat senators use the Trump playbook?

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Anonymous wrote:And these ANC commissioners HATE single family home dwellers. At a meeting this week, the chair of 3C proposed getting rid of residential trash pick up for SFH dwellers.

Are you referring to 22-year-old Hayden Gise, who ran unopposed for ANC ? The one who had the great idea to take the group middle finger photo in front of the vacuum store?

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Anonymous wrote:And these ANC commissioners HATE single family home dwellers. At a meeting this week, the chair of 3C proposed getting rid of residential trash pick up for SFH dwellers.

They do hate SFH dwellers. They are very personal about it. Better people have got to run. The ANC3C commissioners need to be voted out.

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Anonymous wrote:And these ANC commissioners HATE single family home dwellers. At a meeting this week, the chair of 3C proposed getting rid of residential trash pick up for SFH dwellers.

They do hate SFH dwellers. They are very personal about it. Better people have got to run. The ANC3C commissioners need to be voted out.

ha ha ok, I look forward to your SFH platform candidacy.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

That explains a lot of their tactics and rhetoric to be honest.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

You really need help. It is so hard for people like you to fathom that our cities do better with more density, that more density is an environmental solution that helps preserve green space and better utilize the investments in infrastructure that had already been made; that more density is positive for our local businesses and the list goes on. You really need to lose the tin-foil hate about the so-called "smart growth lobby" which is just as misinformed as the conspiracies around the "bicycle lobby" which are both akin to being "soros funded" whistles that are total BS.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

You really need help. It is so hard for people like you to fathom that our cities do better with more density, that more density is an environmental solution that helps preserve green space and better utilize the investments in infrastructure that had already been made; that more density is positive for our local businesses and the list goes on. You really need to lose the tin-foil hate about the so-called "smart growth lobby" which is just as misinformed as the conspiracies around the "bicycle lobby" which are both akin to being "soros funded" whistles that are total BS.

Is Mexico going to pay for it?

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

You really need help. It is so hard for people like you to fathom that our cities do better with more density, that more density is an environmental solution that helps preserve green space and better utilize the investments in infrastructure that had already been made; that more density is positive for our local businesses and the list goes on. You really need to lose the tin-foil hate about the so-called "smart growth lobby" which is just as misinformed as the conspiracies around the "bicycle lobby" which are both akin to being "soros funded" whistles that are total BS.

The facts speak for themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

You really need help. It is so hard for people like you to fathom that our cities do better with more density, that more density is an environmental solution that helps preserve green space and better utilize the investments in infrastructure that had already been made; that more density is positive for our local businesses and the list goes on. You really need to lose the tin-foil hate about the so-called "smart growth lobby" which is just as misinformed as the conspiracies around the "bicycle lobby" which are both akin to being "soros funded" whistles that are total BS.

Hi, Bob.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

You really need help. It is so hard for people like you to fathom that our cities do better with more density, that more density is an environmental solution that helps preserve green space and better utilize the investments in infrastructure that had already been made; that more density is positive for our local businesses and the list goes on. You really need to lose the tin-foil hate about the so-called "smart growth lobby" which is just as misinformed as the conspiracies around the "bicycle lobby" which are both akin to being "soros funded" whistles that are total BS.

There are currently over 4000 homes and apartments for sale/rent in DC proper alone. Even more in close in MD/VA. The housing shortage is a myth. What’s really going on here is that is an over abundance of highly educated nonprofit workers that cannot afford to live in Ward 3. So they cloak their lack of buying power in altruistic terms about the environment and equity to try and attain what those before them scraped, saved, and sacrificed for. It’s plain to see and frankly embarrassing.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

That explains a lot of their tactics and rhetoric to be honest.

It’s astonishing how many times during a meeting that the commissioners will turn to him and ask him to explain the position they are taking or a resolution they wrote. The chair gets flummoxed by any comment that questions the logic behind a position, and she immediately throws it to him to answer. Nothing is happening on that commission without his say-so. Most of the commissioners are just his puppets.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

You really need help. It is so hard for people like you to fathom that our cities do better with more density, that more density is an environmental solution that helps preserve green space and better utilize the investments in infrastructure that had already been made; that more density is positive for our local businesses and the list goes on. You really need to lose the tin-foil hate about the so-called "smart growth lobby" which is just as misinformed as the conspiracies around the "bicycle lobby" which are both akin to being "soros funded" whistles that are total BS.

There are currently over 4000 homes and apartments for sale/rent in DC proper alone. Even more in close in MD/VA. The housing shortage is a myth. What’s really going on here is that is an over abundance of highly educated nonprofit workers that cannot afford to live in Ward 3. So they cloak their lack of buying power in altruistic terms about the environment and equity to try and attain what those before them scraped, saved, and sacrificed for. It’s plain to see and frankly embarrassing.

This is just not true. I own a house in Ward 3 (and don't work for a nonprofit anyway) and completely agree with my many neighbors who want to increase density here and around the city, both for environmental reasons and because there's no reason that our neighborhoods should mostly be zoned only for $1 million-plus single family homes, especially near transit and commercial corridors.

I agree that a lot of "YIMBY" advocates do often overlook, or willfully ignore, the profit motives of developers and how that plays into urban politics and decision-making, but... no one seems to want to go for my preferred policy, which would be to build a large amount of government-funded, high-quality public housing. So unless someone makes me king, I have to choose between policies and options that don't exactly meet my ideals. In this case, anything that increases the supply of close-in housing so it reduces sprawl in the surrounding region and that allows people to get around without needing to own cars seems better than the alternative. Likewise, anything that creates housing that people who can't currently afford to rent or buy in this part of town seems better than not doing that.

You may think it's crazy for anyone to support policies you disagree with unless it personally benefits us, but that doesn't actually mean you're right.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.

Really the only way this pipe dream plan works is if MPD dedicates a detachment of officers to ticket cars and trucks that will inevitably regularly park in the bike lanes as they do everywhere else in the city. Which is, of course, ironic because the bike lane crowd is also largely the defund the police crowd which is responsible for the sharp drop in number of officers needed to make their dream come true.

No, this is not true. The majority of the traffic safety (including bike lanes) people speak frequently about their frustration with lack of enforcement. Things like speed cameras and red light cameras come up frequently, as well as MPD failures to enforce. There are some transit advocates that are also police reform advocates, but there is far from a complete overlap.

Every ANC Commissioner that is pro bike lane was also a cheerleader for the pro-crime criminal code rewrite. Every one of them. 100% overlap.

The criminal code reform is hardly "pro-crime" - you are clearly taking a page out of the Trump playbook if you truly believe that.

Your reference to the "Trump playbook" is most ironic when the so-called "progressive" majority on the ANC 3C lets Donald Trump's campaign pollster lead them around by the nose. He's apparently moved on from Trump-Manafort world to flack for DC Smart Growth development interests, and he helps to shape the ANC's agenda and to write their resolutions.

You really need help. It is so hard for people like you to fathom that our cities do better with more density, that more density is an environmental solution that helps preserve green space and better utilize the investments in infrastructure that had already been made; that more density is positive for our local businesses and the list goes on. You really need to lose the tin-foil hate about the so-called "smart growth lobby" which is just as misinformed as the conspiracies around the "bicycle lobby" which are both akin to being "soros funded" whistles that are total BS.

There are currently over 4000 homes and apartments for sale/rent in DC proper alone. Even more in close in MD/VA. The housing shortage is a myth. What’s really going on here is that is an over abundance of highly educated nonprofit workers that cannot afford to live in Ward 3. So they cloak their lack of buying power in altruistic terms about the environment and equity to try and attain what those before them scraped, saved, and sacrificed for. It’s plain to see and frankly embarrassing.

This is just not true. I own a house in Ward 3 (and don't work for a nonprofit anyway) and completely agree with my many neighbors who want to increase density here and around the city, both for environmental reasons and because there's no reason that our neighborhoods should mostly be zoned only for $1 million-plus single family homes, especially near transit and commercial corridors.

I agree that a lot of "YIMBY" advocates do often overlook, or willfully ignore, the profit motives of developers and how that plays into urban politics and decision-making, but... no one seems to want to go for my preferred policy, which would be to build a large amount of government-funded, high-quality public housing. So unless someone makes me king, I have to choose between policies and options that don't exactly meet my ideals. In this case, anything that increases the supply of close-in housing so it reduces sprawl in the surrounding region and that allows people to get around without needing to own cars seems better than the alternative. Likewise, anything that creates housing that people who can't currently afford to rent or buy in this part of town seems better than not doing that.

You may think it's crazy for anyone to support policies you disagree with unless it personally benefits us, but that doesn't actually mean you're right.

And how exactly do bike lanes create apartment buildings?