Oh, Chevy Chase (DC affordable housing)!

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly don’t understand why poor people think they are entitled to live in rich people neighborhoods.

Not just "poor" people - teachers, police, nurses. These people used to be able to buy in the neighborhood. In fact many of the current retirees living here are former DC government employees. Now they can't afford to live anywhere in DC. Some of us don't want to live solely amongst rich and entitled snots.

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There is lovey green space there. Some beautiful roses, benches, and a reading garden. It’s not large or fancy, but really nice. My family and I enjoy the space regularly and will be sad to see it go.

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Anonymous wrote:There is lovey green space there. Some beautiful roses, benches, and a reading garden. It’s not large or fancy, but really nice. My family and I enjoy the space regularly and will be sad to see it go.

Tell them what you love about the space during the comment period. What you describe may not be a tough thing to incorporate into the design.

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Anonymous wrote:I honestly don’t understand why poor people think they are entitled to live in rich people neighborhoods.

I think this kind of attitude is really passé. If you want to live in a neighborhood that’s convenient to a city and all the amenities/services that that kind of location affords, then you need to be willing to share your space with various people who work in that location. An apartment building of both market-rate and subsidized units co-located with a community center seems like the least very least CC should be asked to provide….

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Anonymous wrote:There is lovey green space there. Some beautiful roses, benches, and a reading garden. It’s not large or fancy, but really nice. My family and I enjoy the space regularly and will be sad to see it go.

I really doubt the new development and community center won’t have a bench and some bushes.

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Anonymous wrote:One other thing I’m baffled by is why smart rich people could be so stupid and self-sabotaging as to be quoted in the Washington Post about how you think affordable housing will ruin your neighborhood. All “Connor McCarthy” has to say is “no comment,” or even “can I give you a comment without attribution?” What kind of person can be that rich and successful but also that stupid?

He's not some random guy, either--he's on the ANC's standing committee on zoning and development https://anc3g.org/standing-commitees/zoning-design-and-development-zdd-standing-committee/ and he's a real estate professional.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean nobody likes affordable housing. If you don’t oppose it you are idealistic or it doesn’t affect you or both

Quoth the MAGA, "Never Here!"

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I love Dave Chapell, but what I like best about him is his refusal to allow a developer and politicians bring section 8 housing to his community. Why? He, as a black man, who came from poverty and section 8 neighborhoods, he said he worked hard to get away from that life and was not going back. He understands the culture and history better than most, how did he stop it? He purchased the land the developer was going to use and kept it for himself and his community. I don't care what you call me, and I do not live in Chevy Chase, but I would fight it with all my might. I with Chapelle on this, difference is I am not afraid to say it, as he was not.

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Anonymous wrote:There are already many apartment buildings in CC that are affordable. But obviously that does nothing for the developers.

I don’t think this is true.

The city has been placing homeless people in subsidized apartments up and down CT Ave for years now. No reason they couldn’t do the same for working class families in the apartment bldgs in CC. But again, no gain for developers in that scenario.

We have an acute housing crisis, there are not enough vacant apartments. You sound very out of touch.

One seven-story building in CC won’t change that.

Each additional unit will help. Obviously.

Great. Start with the apartment buildings that already exist. There are a lot of them.

But, Damn!, not in my back yard!

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Anonymous wrote:I mean nobody likes affordable housing. If you don’t oppose it you are idealistic or it doesn’t affect you or both

Quoth the MAGA, "Never Here!"

It's Ultra MAGA, if you're going to use that towards me, get it right! Not np.

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Why does Bowser hate white people so much? She's such a racist. Glad I did not vote for her.

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Anonymous wrote:I live a few blocks from the proposed site and read the listserve regularly. Granted the listserve may not be a fully accurate representation of how neighbors feel, but the article’s claim that “Most residents agree the site needs to be updated, but the addition of affordable housing has proved divisive” Is absolutely misleading in the most unfair, nasty and self-serving way. That is not at all the way people in the neighborhood feel. What we are sensing is that the city is hiding behind a purported objective of increasing the number of affordable housing to give giveaways to developers, and, in the process, sacrificing the existing positive attributes of the site (mainly open space). The key here is how many affordable units will the neighborhood actually get in exchange for a massive building on the community center site. My understanding is that in practice we will only get a handful. So why don’t we just build those few affordable units and not build the remaining luxury units that the developers salivate over (or build fewer of them) and keep the open space instead? That’s the approach that would satisfy me at least.

Because selling the luxury units is what pays for the construction of the affordable units. That’s the model. And it creates a mixed income building, which people think improves the likelihood that it will maintain itself. What you’re describing is a housing project.

Well, dang!, there you go, giving away the secrets of how to manage a mixed use community. Now everyone will know how to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:Chevy Chase needs its own building dept and be an incorporated village with its own mayor

The left wing radicals in DC and MoCo are pushing an agenda.

Yikes! Tighten up your argument. Your tinfoil hat is slipping.

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Anonymous wrote:I love Dave Chapell, but what I like best about him is his refusal to allow a developer and politicians bring section 8 housing to his community. Why? He, as a black man, who came from poverty and section 8 neighborhoods, he said he worked hard to get away from that life and was not going back. He understands the culture and history better than most, how did he stop it? He purchased the land the developer was going to use and kept it for himself and his community. I don't care what you call me, and I do not live in Chevy Chase, but I would fight it with all my might. I with Chapelle on this, difference is I am not afraid to say it, as he was not.

There is no proposal for Section 8 housing, although one of your compatriots did propose building 100% income restricted housing upthread as a way to justify a smaller building. Maybe y'all should focus on one strategy or the other; throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks just reinforces the impression that it's nothing but good old racism underneath all your indignation and window dressing.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, the article is a hit job meant to make the neighborhood look bad. It should be fair to ask effected officials questions like:

How exactly will the community center and library be build out?

What amenities will be provided?

Will there be any green space left reserved?

Will there be a playground?

Will there still be a basketball/pickleball corurt?

Why can’t the city pay to develop these city owned resources which are available to and used by city-wide residents now?

Is this the best location to add housing when there are numerous other housing projects in flight nearby and many currently available units in the neighborhood?

But of course, when you ask questions like that you get slammed as racist and anti-affordable housing.

IKR! Gotta keep the riff-raff out.