Soooo, how is high-density looking to everyone now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Can we not forget DC has great bus lines? I take buses all the time and they pick up /drop off all over

Buses are transit.

But DC does not have great bus lines. They're slow, they're often crowded, and they're vulnerable to cuts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/chaotic-mess-slows-regions-ambitious-plans-to-expand-bus-service/2020/03/08/a822db48-5ff7-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

Then they should be eyed by the density crowd, whose goal is less cars on the road, for improvement--no?
I use them all the time, have for years and they are fine. Could only get better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Can we not forget DC has great bus lines? I take buses all the time and they pick up /drop off all over

Buses are transit.

But DC does not have great bus lines. They're slow, they're often crowded, and they're vulnerable to cuts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/chaotic-mess-slows-regions-ambitious-plans-to-expand-bus-service/2020/03/08/a822db48-5ff7-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

Then they should be eyed by the density crowd, whose goal is less cars on the road, for improvement--no?
I use them all the time, have for years and they are fine. Could only get better.

Yes, they should, and in fact, they are. I'm glad that the buses you use, work for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Can we not forget DC has great bus lines? I take buses all the time and they pick up /drop off all over

Buses are transit.

But DC does not have great bus lines. They're slow, they're often crowded, and they're vulnerable to cuts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/chaotic-mess-slows-regions-ambitious-plans-to-expand-bus-service/2020/03/08/a822db48-5ff7-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

Then they should be eyed by the density crowd, whose goal is less cars on the road, for improvement--no?
I use them all the time, have for years and they are fine. Could only get better.

But DC needs more height and density to be able to afford to improve the bus service. This will create an urbanist virtuous circle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Can we not forget DC has great bus lines? I take buses all the time and they pick up /drop off all over

Buses are transit.

But DC does not have great bus lines. They're slow, they're often crowded, and they're vulnerable to cuts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/chaotic-mess-slows-regions-ambitious-plans-to-expand-bus-service/2020/03/08/a822db48-5ff7-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

Then they should be eyed by the density crowd, whose goal is less cars on the road, for improvement--no?
I use them all the time, have for years and they are fine. Could only get better.

But DC needs more height and density to be able to afford to improve the bus service. This will create an urbanist virtuous circle.

DC has a budget surplus, so why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Can we not forget DC has great bus lines? I take buses all the time and they pick up /drop off all over

Buses are transit.

But DC does not have great bus lines. They're slow, they're often crowded, and they're vulnerable to cuts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/chaotic-mess-slows-regions-ambitious-plans-to-expand-bus-service/2020/03/08/a822db48-5ff7-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

Then they should be eyed by the density crowd, whose goal is less cars on the road, for improvement--no?
I use them all the time, have for years and they are fine. Could only get better.

But DC needs more height and density to be able to afford to improve the bus service. This will create an urbanist virtuous circle.

Not after COVID crisis. Anyway, more development means more affordable housing and more tax revenue for better transit, public schools, social services for marginalized people, etc., plus great urbanism. In other words, win-win-win for DC.

DC has a budget surplus, so why?

[Anonymous]

Not after COVID crisis. Anyway, more development means more affordable housing and more tax revenue for better transit, public schools, social services for marginalized people, etc., plus great urbanism. In other words, win-win-win for DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not after COVID crisis. Anyway, more development means more affordable housing and more tax revenue for better transit, public schools, social services for marginalized people, etc., plus great urbanism. In other words, win-win-win for DC.

This is the pseudoscience behind the urbanization movement. There simply is not a study that bears any of your assumptions out.

The fact of the matter is, before adding a ton of additional variables, if your theory was correct, we should be able to get the services that we have working. If we cannot get WMATA to work for the city now, how do we drop an additional 100K people in it (with no cars because urbanization is also anti vehicles) without functioning WMATA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not after COVID crisis. Anyway, more development means more affordable housing and more tax revenue for better transit, public schools, social services for marginalized people, etc., plus great urbanism. In other words, win-win-win for DC.

This is the pseudoscience behind the urbanization movement. There simply is not a study that bears any of your assumptions out.

The fact of the matter is, before adding a ton of additional variables, if your theory was correct, we should be able to get the services that we have working. If we cannot get WMATA to work for the city now, how do we drop an additional 100K people in it (with no cars because urbanization is also anti vehicles) without functioning WMATA.

+100

WMATA keeps raising prices, but we're getting zilch for it. It doesn't work for the city; it works to enrich itself, full stop.

[Anonymous]

Does this person think that people who live in affordable housing generating substantial tax revenue?? lol. They are a net drain on society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does this person think that people who live in affordable housing generating substantial tax revenue?? lol. They are a net drain on society.

LOL right - in addition to working crappy poorly paid jobs the people in the service industry should also have horrendous commutes! I mean we don't need people in the service industry right? We quasi wealthy folks in McLean Gardens can surely stock the shelves, prep the food and do the dishes too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this person think that people who live in affordable housing generating substantial tax revenue?? lol. They are a net drain on society.

LOL right - in addition to working crappy poorly paid jobs the people in the service industry should also have horrendous commutes! I mean we don't need people in the service industry right? We quasi wealthy folks in McLean Gardens can surely stock the shelves, prep the food and do the dishes too?

I was specifically talking about the previous post referenced that somehow affordable housing will bring in new tax revenues to fund all these random things. Your response has nothing to do with what I said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Can we not forget DC has great bus lines? I take buses all the time and they pick up /drop off all over

Buses are transit.

But DC does not have great bus lines. They're slow, they're often crowded, and they're vulnerable to cuts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/chaotic-mess-slows-regions-ambitious-plans-to-expand-bus-service/2020/03/08/a822db48-5ff7-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

Then they should be eyed by the density crowd, whose goal is less cars on the road, for improvement--no?
I use them all the time, have for years and they are fine. Could only get better.

But DC needs more height and density to be able to afford to improve the bus service. This will create an urbanist virtuous circle.

I know you think you are being clever but in fact the reason DC has spent so much on infra the last 15 years is precisely because the city has been densifying - the city has been adding residents who require relatively little land and take relatively little in DC services relative to what they pay in taxes. That in turn has led to a surge in tax revenue which is how the city has modernized most of its schools, rec centers, fire stations etc all while the number of cars in the city has grown at a rate much slower than the population has grown.

So yeah the urbanist virtuous circle thing actually does work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this person think that people who live in affordable housing generating substantial tax revenue?? lol. They are a net drain on society.

LOL right - in addition to working crappy poorly paid jobs the people in the service industry should also have horrendous commutes! I mean we don't need people in the service industry right? We quasi wealthy folks in McLean Gardens can surely stock the shelves, prep the food and do the dishes too?

I was specifically talking about the previous post referenced that somehow affordable housing will bring in new tax revenues to fund all these random things. Your response has nothing to do with what I said.

Well duh but you are trying to be clever while being ignorant or feigning ignorance but since I don't know which I'll remind you DC is trying to build both market rate and new affordable housing for different income levels.

And in fact most people work and if you work you are paying taxes regardless of whether or not your taxes cover your expenses and you are also living somewhere whether in DC or elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does this person think that people who live in affordable housing generating substantial tax revenue?? lol. They are a net drain on society.

LOL right - in addition to working crappy poorly paid jobs the people in the service industry should also have horrendous commutes! I mean we don't need people in the service industry right? We quasi wealthy folks in McLean Gardens can surely stock the shelves, prep the food and do the dishes too?

I was specifically talking about the previous post referenced that somehow affordable housing will bring in new tax revenues to fund all these random things. Your response has nothing to do with what I said.

Well duh but you are trying to be clever while being ignorant or feigning ignorance but since I don't know which I'll remind you DC is trying to build both market rate and new affordable housing for different income levels.

And in fact most people work and if you work you are paying taxes regardless of whether or not your taxes cover your expenses and you are also living somewhere whether in DC or elsewhere.

You can barely put a sentence together. lmao

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mendelson’s office is saying that the Office of Planning has to go back to the drawing board in light of post-COVID realty. And Council will not be taking up the Comp Plan amendments in 2029.

Weird - I missed this and I follow local politics pretty closely - do you have a citation or are you the person last week who cited something another Councilmember had told you directly?