Do you have any advice re: fighting popups/popbacks, etc?

[Anonymous]

Looking for help fighting a really, really egregious popback/popup etc. that's coming to our block. Looking for any advice, any names we should be contacting about how to fight this.

[Anonymous]

Relax. The condos that will come of it will help your value by raising the price per square feet and replacing what was probably a blighted property.

[Anonymous]

What jurisdiction

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Relax. The condos that will come of it will help your value by raising the price per square feet and replacing what was probably a blighted property.

Thanks, real estate developer. As long as you're making tons of money, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What jurisdiction

Petworth, where real estate developers can do *anything* they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What jurisdiction

Petworth, where real estate developers can do *anything* they want.

If you are a homeowner, contact your ANC chair and council member. They can do a little but it is highly unlikely you can stop the construction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looking for help fighting a really, really egregious popback/popup etc. that's coming to our block. Looking for any advice, any names we should be contacting about how to fight this.

We planted some fast growing evergreen trees. Fighting neighbor's poor taste is seemingly futile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What jurisdiction

Petworth, where real estate developers can do *anything* they want.

If you are a homeowner, contact your ANC chair and council member. They can do a little but it is highly unlikely you can stop the construction.

Thanks. Is there anything we can do to at least slow construction? To make life harder for the developer? It seems terrible that this stuff is allowed to go on. It also feels like pretty much the entire DC government is in favor of what real estate developers want to do.

[Anonymous]

Well, it’s what will cause the equity in your house to rise. Are you supposed to be the last gentrifier allowed in?

[Anonymous]

isn't the only thing you can do to fight for historic designation for your neighborhood, or fight for city-wide restrictions on pop-ups? if they can build it by-right, then not sure there's anything you can do. just make sure they follow whatever zoning laws currently exist in terms of lot coverage and set-back requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s what will cause the equity in your house to rise. Are you supposed to be the last gentrifier allowed in?

This building is not going to help property values on the street. It's going to be a massive development that will tower over all the neighbors. You would have to be crazy to want to buy a place next door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:isn't the only thing you can do to fight for historic designation for your neighborhood, or fight for city-wide restrictions on pop-ups? if they can build it by-right, then not sure there's anything you can do. just make sure they follow whatever zoning laws currently exist in terms of lot coverage and set-back requirements.

What does "build it by-right" mean? We don't know anything about zoning laws.

[Anonymous]

The reality is that real estate developers pay for our elected politicians' reelection campaigns so it's not surprising that they NEVER oppose developers. If you complain, they'll just throw their hands up and say "it's out of my power -- I can't do anything." It's always the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s what will cause the equity in your house to rise. Are you supposed to be the last gentrifier allowed in?

+1 to the second sentence. There’s something so disingenuous about well off (most likely) white people objecting to further development in their previously poor neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, it’s what will cause the equity in your house to rise. Are you supposed to be the last gentrifier allowed in?

+1 to the second sentence. There’s something so disingenuous about well off (most likely) white people objecting to further development in their previously poor neighborhood.

Is this some kind of weird Orwellian joke? This stuff is *only* allowed to happen in black neighborhoods. If a developer went to DuPont Circle or Georgetown or Alexandria or Friendship Heights and proposed tearing down a single-family home and covering every square inch of the yard with condos, people would be in the streets with pitchforks. Of course, that never actually happens, because people in those neighborhoods have already engineered their zoning laws to ensure that developers can never do any such thing. So the developers come to poor black neighborhoods where zoning laws basically don't exist, and no one will complain.