Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

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.

No reason, really now? One reason off the top of my head is that SFH owners like me really like living in SFH neighborhoods! They're pretty, they have beautiful yards here in Ward 3. It's relatively quiet. We have big trees in our own yards, that play host to urban wildlife. Kids can play soccer in the backyard. I have a giant wraparound porch that isn't possible in a rowhouse or condo. We have big gardens in our big yards. We can pull up in front of our house and unload heavy groceries, animals coming home from the vet, an elderly relative ...

Did I mention it's quieter than Shaw?

There are very few poor people who've made poor life choices wandering on the streets. Or living on the streets. Our dogs have big green lush yards to play in. Many of us have pools and climbing structures. More flowering trees than in dense neighborhoods.

People who've made a lifetime of bad choices are priced out of the vicinity! So their drama doesn't spill over into our lives, much. Making Conn Ave the new Welfare Valley is changing that for those who live close to the Ave, though. Some of us prefer civility over diversity if forced to choose a type of neighbor you want.

Mostly, it's quieter, calmer, more lush and greener than DC's dense neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, where are the $1m sf or th homes in our neighborhood? Huh?!

[Anonymous]

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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.

No reason, really now? One reason off the top of my head is that SFH owners like me really like living in SFH neighborhoods! They're pretty, they have beautiful yards here in Ward 3. It's relatively quiet. We have big trees in our own yards, that play host to urban wildlife. Kids can play soccer in the backyard. I have a giant wraparound porch that isn't possible in a rowhouse or condo. We have big gardens in our big yards. We can pull up in front of our house and unload heavy groceries, animals coming home from the vet, an elderly relative ...

Did I mention it's quieter than Shaw?

There are very few poor people who've made poor life choices wandering on the streets. Or living on the streets. Our dogs have big green lush yards to play in. Many of us have pools and climbing structures. More flowering trees than in dense neighborhoods.

People who've made a lifetime of bad choices are priced out of the vicinity! So their drama doesn't spill over into our lives, much. Making Conn Ave the new Welfare Valley is changing that for those who live close to the Ave, though. Some of us prefer civility over diversity if forced to choose a type of neighbor you want.

Mostly, it's quieter, calmer, more lush and greener than DC's dense neighborhoods.

Try to make your trolling less obvious.

[Anonymous]

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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.

The problem is that the Ward 3 SFH owners pay the bills, as they generally are upper income professionals earning, say, top 10% compensation. Losing them means losing your tax base. And, yes, they want a SFH in a neighborhood of SFHs. DC has plenty of space. What is bizarre is why the City does not focus on developments in Wards 7 and 8.

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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.

The problem is that the Ward 3 SFH owners pay the bills, as they generally are upper income professionals earning, say, top 10% compensation. Losing them means losing your tax base. And, yes, they want a SFH in a neighborhood of SFHs. DC has plenty of space. What is bizarre is why the City does not focus on developments in Wards 7 and 8.

Losing them also means losing the entire public school system. Kind of a problem for the rest of the city.

[Anonymous]

Dc is delaying the Connecticut avenue bike project because of all the opposition. Yay!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dc is delaying the Connecticut avenue bike project because of all the opposition. Yay!

Window dressing. They’ll do it in the end.

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Anonymous wrote:Dc is delaying the Connecticut avenue bike project because of all the opposition. Yay!

Window dressing. They’ll do it in the end.

Pfft. They couldn’t even do Safe Streets. This is never going to happen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dc is delaying the Connecticut avenue bike project because of all the opposition. Yay!

Also delaying it to consider extending it all the way to Chevy Chase Circle and consider expanding the bike lanes from 5 feet to 7 feet: https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/04/05/dc-connecticut-avenue-bike-lane-designs

But they do seem to be considering adding 30-minute parking spots for customers of nearby stores.

[Anonymous]

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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.

No reason, really now? One reason off the top of my head is that SFH owners like me really like living in SFH neighborhoods! They're pretty, they have beautiful yards here in Ward 3. It's relatively quiet. We have big trees in our own yards, that play host to urban wildlife. Kids can play soccer in the backyard. I have a giant wraparound porch that isn't possible in a rowhouse or condo. We have big gardens in our big yards. We can pull up in front of our house and unload heavy groceries, animals coming home from the vet, an elderly relative ...

Did I mention it's quieter than Shaw?

There are very few poor people who've made poor life choices wandering on the streets. Or living on the streets. Our dogs have big green lush yards to play in. Many of us have pools and climbing structures. More flowering trees than in dense neighborhoods.

People who've made a lifetime of bad choices are priced out of the vicinity! So their drama doesn't spill over into our lives, much. Making Conn Ave the new Welfare Valley is changing that for those who live close to the Ave, though. Some of us prefer civility over diversity if forced to choose a type of neighbor you want.

Mostly, it's quieter, calmer, more lush and greener than DC's dense neighborhoods.

Believe it or not, changing the zoning in currently SFH-only neighborhoods would not mean your existing SFH with a giant porch has to suddenly turn into an apartment building! I like living in a house with a yard, too. But I don’t see how having a small apartment building or rowhouse nearby would be a problem. (Also, my SFH neighborhood has semi-detached row houses already.) Also, there’s no reason you need to cut down trees to build apartment buildings if the trees are, say, between the curb and the sidewalk, where a huge number of trees in Ward 3 already are. This isn’t about making you change your current life at all; it’s about making it possible for people to buy or rent a small apartment somewhere near you if they want to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dc is delaying the Connecticut avenue bike project because of all the opposition. Yay!

Also delaying it to consider extending it all the way to Chevy Chase Circle and consider expanding the bike lanes from 5 feet to 7 feet: https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/04/05/dc-connecticut-avenue-bike-lane-designs

But they do seem to be considering adding 30-minute parking spots for customers of nearby stores.

DC never changes. Delaying a bad unpopular plan in order to make it worse.

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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.

This is so true. I've actually heard him called Commissioner Ward at meetings even though he was soundly defeated when he ran a few years ago. He writes all the resolutions and is the only one who can answer questions about the resolutions. Truly embarrassing for the others who are led around so passively.

[Anonymous]

The Mayor finally focused on the bike lane fiasco and she doesn't like it. Another plan could pass muster, but you need parking for businesses and a plan to keep traffic from diverting on to side streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dc is delaying the Connecticut avenue bike project because of all the opposition. Yay!

When a major restaurateur and employer speaks, any reasonable mayor will listen. Even over the hysterical cackling of the spandex crowd.

[Anonymous]

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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.

No reason, really now? One reason off the top of my head is that SFH owners like me really like living in SFH neighborhoods! They're pretty, they have beautiful yards here in Ward 3. It's relatively quiet. We have big trees in our own yards, that play host to urban wildlife. Kids can play soccer in the backyard. I have a giant wraparound porch that isn't possible in a rowhouse or condo. We have big gardens in our big yards. We can pull up in front of our house and unload heavy groceries, animals coming home from the vet, an elderly relative ...

Did I mention it's quieter than Shaw?

There are very few poor people who've made poor life choices wandering on the streets. Or living on the streets. Our dogs have big green lush yards to play in. Many of us have pools and climbing structures. More flowering trees than in dense neighborhoods.

People who've made a lifetime of bad choices are priced out of the vicinity! So their drama doesn't spill over into our lives, much. Making Conn Ave the new Welfare Valley is changing that for those who live close to the Ave, though. Some of us prefer civility over diversity if forced to choose a type of neighbor you want.

Mostly, it's quieter, calmer, more lush and greener than DC's dense neighborhoods.

There are also a lot of people who were born on 3rd base and have no clue of the privilege they have lived to make it to home plate.