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

[Anonymous]

Density is dead for a good long while. You might as well try to sell buildings constructed out of asbestos.

[Anonymous]

On a side note, David Alpert and his GGW density goons just endorsed unapologetic bigot Trayon White for DC Council, if you want to know what kind of people they are:

https://ggwash.org/view/77510/dc-endorsements

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Density is dead for a good long while. You might as well try to sell buildings constructed out of asbestos.

not if they push it through, density proposals are pretty much wall-papering the DC Government/Mayor Bowser's web site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On a side note, David Alpert and his GGW density goons just endorsed unapologetic bigot Trayon White for DC Council, if you want to know what kind of people they are:

https://ggwash.org/view/77510/dc-endorsements

He’s no doubt supporting the developers’ agenda because he know where the money comes from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:increasing density is an excellent way to spread things like coronavirus

Yes, we should throw out 99 years of sensible housing policy for one year of a once-every-100 years pandemic that we actually could have prepared for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Adding density now is a fool’s errand. No one wants to live amidst urban density in a pandemic. Breeding ground for disease. It would vastly drive down the value of DC real estate, which now lies is in its lower density, relative to other cities.

Complete nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:increasing density is an excellent way to spread things like coronavirus

Yes, we should throw out 99 years of sensible housing policy for one year of a once-every-100 years pandemic that we actually could have prepared for.

I couldn’t agree more. We’ve had 99 years and more of sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods. Why force our neighborhoods to become big, dense and tall now, just because Bowser wants to reward her developer cronies?!

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Anonymous wrote:
I couldn’t agree more. We’ve had 99 years and more of sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods. Why force our neighborhoods to become big, dense and tall now, just because Bowser wants to reward her developer cronies?!

Your 99 years of "sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods" was really segregation in housing, which remnants of still exist today through single family zoning laws. Tell me you knew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I couldn’t agree more. We’ve had 99 years and more of sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods. Why force our neighborhoods to become big, dense and tall now, just because Bowser wants to reward her developer cronies?!

Your 99 years of "sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods" was really segregation in housing, which remnants of still exist today through single family zoning laws. Tell me you knew.

Redlining was outlawed in 1968 and had ceased in the 'progressive' city of DC before that.

So which segregation remnants are you referring to that you believe exist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I couldn’t agree more. We’ve had 99 years and more of sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods. Why force our neighborhoods to become big, dense and tall now, just because Bowser wants to reward her developer cronies?!

Your 99 years of "sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods" was really segregation in housing, which remnants of still exist today through single family zoning laws. Tell me you knew.

You’re wrong. There was a paper published recently that showed the location by neighborhood and property for former racial covenants and restrictions in DC. There had been relatively little in Ward 3, with some in Spring Valley, yet hardly any in neighborhoods like Cleveland Park and AU Park - neighborhoods that they mayor has targeted for lots of density and undercutting single family residential zoning. Care to guess where the most restrictions were? Wards 5 and 7 and especially Ward 4, the mayor’s home Ward. Her Ward 4’s residential neighborhoods actually get additional protection against big development in her Comprehensive Plan proposals. This study is certainly inconvenient for Bowser and her developer flunkies in the planning office, who have been arguing that upzoning and weakening SFH zoning in Ward 3 is necessary to address racial restrictions. (It’s one of their spit ball arguments in favor of development; they keep hurling arguments against the chalk board in the hope that something will stick.) Of course, even if there had been more such historical restrictions WOTP, the mayor’s crowd fails to explain how building lots of luxury condo buildings would address this legacy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I couldn’t agree more. We’ve had 99 years and more of sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods. Why force our neighborhoods to become big, dense and tall now, just because Bowser wants to reward her developer cronies?!

Your 99 years of "sensible planning and zoning in our leafy Washington neighborhoods" was really segregation in housing, which remnants of still exist today through single family zoning laws. Tell me you knew.

You’re wrong. There was a paper published recently that showed the location by neighborhood and property for former racial covenants and restrictions in DC. There had been relatively little in Ward 3, with some in Spring Valley, yet hardly any in neighborhoods like Cleveland Park and AU Park - neighborhoods that they mayor has targeted for lots of density and undercutting single family residential zoning. Care to guess where the most restrictions were? Wards 5 and 7 and especially Ward 4, the mayor’s home Ward. Her Ward 4’s residential neighborhoods actually get additional protection against big development in her Comprehensive Plan proposals. This study is certainly inconvenient for Bowser and her developer flunkies in the planning office, who have been arguing that upzoning and weakening SFH zoning in Ward 3 is necessary to address racial restrictions. (It’s one of their spit ball arguments in favor of development; they keep hurling arguments against the chalk board in the hope that something will stick.) Of course, even if there had been more such historical restrictions WOTP, the mayor’s crowd fails to explain how building lots of luxury condo buildings would address this legacy!

Ouch, facts are so painful.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You’re wrong. There was a paper published recently that showed the location by neighborhood and property for former racial covenants and restrictions in DC. There had been relatively little in Ward 3, with some in Spring Valley, yet hardly any in neighborhoods like Cleveland Park and AU Park - neighborhoods that they mayor has targeted for lots of density and undercutting single family residential zoning. Care to guess where the most restrictions were? Wards 5 and 7 and especially Ward 4, the mayor’s home Ward. Her Ward 4’s residential neighborhoods actually get additional protection against big development in her Comprehensive Plan proposals. This study is certainly inconvenient for Bowser and her developer flunkies in the planning office, who have been arguing that upzoning and weakening SFH zoning in Ward 3 is necessary to address racial restrictions. (It’s one of their spit ball arguments in favor of development; they keep hurling arguments against the chalk board in the hope that something will stick.) Of course, even if there had been more such historical restrictions WOTP, the mayor’s crowd fails to explain how building lots of luxury condo buildings would address this legacy!

You clearly have a lot to learn about zoning laws and the history of how they have been used to exclude minorities and other "undesirables" from neighborhoods. This isn't just a DC issue. It has happened all over the country.