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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dclibrary.org/sites/default/files/Document%208C.2%20-%20Mixed%20Use%20Real%20Estate%20Projects%20Policy%20-%20May%2014%2C%202020.pdf

Public Library District of Columbia

MIXED-USE REAL ESTATE PROJECTS POLICY

Since 2007, the Board of Library Trustees has led the transformation of the library campus
and recognized the need for a mixed-use real estate project policy to help guide the Library.
In 2007, the Board adopted its first mixed-use policy and amended the plan in 2014.
The Board of Library Trustees recognizes the District’s goal and commitment to housing
equity. In keeping with the equity objectives outlined in its Facilities Master Plan 2020-2030,
the Library will work to support the District’s Comprehensive Plan to ensure all residents
can continue to live in the city and benefit from economic, cultural and educational
opportunities.

Ensuring the delivery of quality library services and spaces is the primary focus of the Board
of Library Trustees when renovating or rebuilding libraries. With that in mind, the Library
shall explore and leverage any mixed-use development for future library projects as a
means to improve the quality of libraries, increase their accessibility and use, and expand
the inventory of affordable housing available to District residents.

Working in collaboration with all relevant District agencies but essentially the Office of the
Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and the District of Columbia
Housing Authority, the Board of Library Trustees will welcome appropriate mixed-use
opportunities and provide guidance and encouragement to library staff and other relevant
parties to ensure that the library system and the community receive the greatest possible
benefit.

Document #8C.2
Board of Library Trustees Meeting
May 14, 2020

This is a sop to Mayor Barry-Bowser and her developer johns. But the Tenley and architectural award-winning Cleveland Park libraries are already built. There is talk about renovating the Chevy Chase library, but the community will say “no thanks” if some dense mixed-use gift to a favored crony developer is part of the mix.

Last week, DC Library's Board of Trustees passed a resolution for DC libraries to leverage development of library properties for more housing.
Tenleytown's Library is built with extra structural supports to allow construction above the current structure.

The memo posted last week served as a reminder that all of the libraries built over the last ten years were built to accommodate additional housing on top of them once that was politically tenable.

I remember all of this discussion when the Tenley Library was being built. One of the major friction points to building condos on the library was that the footprint expanded to the loss of playing field area for Janney school. And that was before Janney was as crowded as it is today. Look there is no doubt that the libraries are seen as 'easy' targets for up zoning. Especially for city owned housing.

[Anonymous]

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Millie’s and the Spring Valley Shopping Center are good templates for appropriate density and neighborhood-serving retail that are compatible with an adjacent residential neighborhood.

A one-story shopping center built in 1939 with a surface parking lot in front? In DC, in 2020?

Nobody's going to build any more of those in DC, nor should anybody.

Spring Valley and western AU Park are about as suburban as you can find. No one wants “urbanism” there.

Neighbors Against More Neighbors.

Why would Spring Valley trade leafy SFH streets for dense mixed-use? It’s laughable.

Why do you think that you (assuming you're a Spring Valley resident) will get the choice? You own your property (assuming that you're not a renter); you don't own the neighborhood.

Almost certainly the people who lived in the area before your single-family-detached houses and streets were built did not choose for the property owners to build what they built, but here you are nonetheless.

This is why zoning is important. Folks, if you don’t want to see SFH zoning ended, write to Mary Cheh and tell her that the mayor’s comp plan, “upFLUMming and “gentle density” plans should be DOA in NW

LOL - go ahead and send off that email and waste your time. There are no changes proposed to single family home zones anywhere in DC. But go ahead and keep repeating the same nonsense on here - no doubt there is some other nutjob reading this thread who believes you.

[Anonymous]

Multi Family Housing currently in development along Wisconsin Ave (Tenleytown) right now. (2000 units)

The Fox Headquarters Redevelopment: Donohoe Development has plans to raze and replace the office building and radio tower at 5151 Wisconsin Avenue NW with a six-story, 230-unit residential development in late 2021.

Broadcast: The Urban Investment Partners-helmed office-to-residential development at 4620-4624 Wisconsin Avenue NW will create an 8-story, 146-unit building that will include more than 12,000 square feet of retail and 58 below-grade parking spaces.

Dancing Crab Redevelopment: Raze applications were filed at the end of March for the former Dancing Crab at 4615 Wisconsin Avenue NW and 4611 41st Street NW the buildings will be razed to make way for a seven-story building with 41 apartments above a restaurant on the ground floor.

The Ladybird: In December, the DC Zoning Commission voted unanimously to approve a planned unit development (PUD) for the former Superfresh grocery site just off Massachusetts Avenue. The project from Valor Development and Torti Gallas + Partners will deliver a 214-unit mixed-use building and five townhouses at 4330 48th Street NW (map) atop a 13,000 square foot MOM's Organic Market grocery store.

4000 Wisconsin: 4000 Wisconsin Avenue NW. Plans are to replace the existing building with a seven-story development delivering 716 apartments atop retail and a health club. Designed by SK+I Architecture, the new development would have 883 parking spaces in addition to 325 bicycle spaces.

City Ridge: Former site of the Fannie Mae headquarters at 3900 Wisconsin Avenue NW. The project will restore the Equitable Life building while delivering the city's first Wegmans on the cellar level. Overall, the development will deliver up to 700 residential units; offices, retail, hotel and cultural space; and up to 1,400 below-grade parking spaces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.dclibrary.org/sites/default/files/Document%208C.2%20-%20Mixed%20Use%20Real%20Estate%20Projects%20Policy%20-%20May%2014%2C%202020.pdf

Public Library District of Columbia

MIXED-USE REAL ESTATE PROJECTS POLICY

Since 2007, the Board of Library Trustees has led the transformation of the library campus
and recognized the need for a mixed-use real estate project policy to help guide the Library.
In 2007, the Board adopted its first mixed-use policy and amended the plan in 2014.
The Board of Library Trustees recognizes the District’s goal and commitment to housing
equity. In keeping with the equity objectives outlined in its Facilities Master Plan 2020-2030,
the Library will work to support the District’s Comprehensive Plan to ensure all residents
can continue to live in the city and benefit from economic, cultural and educational
opportunities.

Ensuring the delivery of quality library services and spaces is the primary focus of the Board
of Library Trustees when renovating or rebuilding libraries. With that in mind, the Library
shall explore and leverage any mixed-use development for future library projects as a
means to improve the quality of libraries, increase their accessibility and use, and expand
the inventory of affordable housing available to District residents.

Working in collaboration with all relevant District agencies but essentially the Office of the
Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and the District of Columbia
Housing Authority, the Board of Library Trustees will welcome appropriate mixed-use
opportunities and provide guidance and encouragement to library staff and other relevant
parties to ensure that the library system and the community receive the greatest possible
benefit.

Document #8C.2
Board of Library Trustees Meeting
May 14, 2020

This is a sop to Mayor Barry-Bowser and her developer johns. But the Tenley and architectural award-winning Cleveland Park libraries are already built. There is talk about renovating the Chevy Chase library, but the community will say “no thanks” if some dense mixed-use gift to a favored crony developer is part of the mix.

Last week, DC Library's Board of Trustees passed a resolution for DC libraries to leverage development of library properties for more housing.
Tenleytown's Library is built with extra structural supports to allow construction above the current structure.

The memo posted last week served as a reminder that all of the libraries built over the last ten years were built to accommodate additional housing on top of them once that was politically tenable.

I remember all of this discussion when the Tenley Library was being built. One of the major friction points to building condos on the library was that the footprint expanded to the loss of playing field area for Janney school. And that was before Janney was as crowded as it is today. Look there is no doubt that the libraries are seen as 'easy' targets for up zoning. Especially for city owned housing.

Of course you remember that discussion because you were one of the nutjobs whipping up hysteria about the proposal while coddling your privately schooled kid.

And because of hysterics like yours we have a crappy library and poor land use on that corner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Multi Family Housing currently in development along Wisconsin Ave (Tenleytown) right now. (2000 units)

The Fox Headquarters Redevelopment: Donohoe Development has plans to raze and replace the office building and radio tower at 5151 Wisconsin Avenue NW with a six-story, 230-unit residential development in late 2021.

Broadcast: The Urban Investment Partners-helmed office-to-residential development at 4620-4624 Wisconsin Avenue NW will create an 8-story, 146-unit building that will include more than 12,000 square feet of retail and 58 below-grade parking spaces.

Dancing Crab Redevelopment: Raze applications were filed at the end of March for the former Dancing Crab at 4615 Wisconsin Avenue NW and 4611 41st Street NW the buildings will be razed to make way for a seven-story building with 41 apartments above a restaurant on the ground floor.

The Ladybird: In December, the DC Zoning Commission voted unanimously to approve a planned unit development (PUD) for the former Superfresh grocery site just off Massachusetts Avenue. The project from Valor Development and Torti Gallas + Partners will deliver a 214-unit mixed-use building and five townhouses at 4330 48th Street NW (map) atop a 13,000 square foot MOM's Organic Market grocery store.

4000 Wisconsin: 4000 Wisconsin Avenue NW. Plans are to replace the existing building with a seven-story development delivering 716 apartments atop retail and a health club. Designed by SK+I Architecture, the new development would have 883 parking spaces in addition to 325 bicycle spaces.

City Ridge: Former site of the Fannie Mae headquarters at 3900 Wisconsin Avenue NW. The project will restore the Equitable Life building while delivering the city's first Wegmans on the cellar level. Overall, the development will deliver up to 700 residential units; offices, retail, hotel and cultural space; and up to 1,400 below-grade parking spaces.

All great news. And still a fraction of what is being built elsewhere in DC.

Now shouldn't you provide a citation when you cut and paste someone else's work?

[Anonymous]

I remember all of this discussion when the Tenley Library was being built. One of the major friction points to building condos on the library was that the footprint expanded to the loss of playing field area for Janney school. And that was before Janney was as crowded as it is today. Look there is no doubt that the libraries are seen as 'easy' targets for up zoning. Especially for city owned housing.

Of course you remember that discussion because you were one of the nutjobs whipping up hysteria about the proposal while coddling your privately schooled kid.

And because of hysterics like yours we have a crappy library and poor land use on that corner.

I like the library. Family uses it every week. I only wish that more city services had been installed in the location as it is a defacto homeless shelter. Could they put showers and a job resource center in there off of the 'stack' areas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.dclibrary.org/sites/default/files/Document%208C.2%20-%20Mixed%20Use%20Real%20Estate%20Projects%20Policy%20-%20May%2014%2C%202020.pdf

Public Library District of Columbia

MIXED-USE REAL ESTATE PROJECTS POLICY

Since 2007, the Board of Library Trustees has led the transformation of the library campus
and recognized the need for a mixed-use real estate project policy to help guide the Library.
In 2007, the Board adopted its first mixed-use policy and amended the plan in 2014.
The Board of Library Trustees recognizes the District’s goal and commitment to housing
equity. In keeping with the equity objectives outlined in its Facilities Master Plan 2020-2030,
the Library will work to support the District’s Comprehensive Plan to ensure all residents
can continue to live in the city and benefit from economic, cultural and educational
opportunities.

Ensuring the delivery of quality library services and spaces is the primary focus of the Board
of Library Trustees when renovating or rebuilding libraries. With that in mind, the Library
shall explore and leverage any mixed-use development for future library projects as a
means to improve the quality of libraries, increase their accessibility and use, and expand
the inventory of affordable housing available to District residents.

Working in collaboration with all relevant District agencies but essentially the Office of the
Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and the District of Columbia
Housing Authority, the Board of Library Trustees will welcome appropriate mixed-use
opportunities and provide guidance and encouragement to library staff and other relevant
parties to ensure that the library system and the community receive the greatest possible
benefit.

Document #8C.2
Board of Library Trustees Meeting
May 14, 2020

This is a sop to Mayor Barry-Bowser and her developer johns. But the Tenley and architectural award-winning Cleveland Park libraries are already built. There is talk about renovating the Chevy Chase library, but the community will say “no thanks” if some dense mixed-use gift to a favored crony developer is part of the mix.

Last week, DC Library's Board of Trustees passed a resolution for DC libraries to leverage development of library properties for more housing.
Tenleytown's Library is built with extra structural supports to allow construction above the current structure.

The memo posted last week served as a reminder that all of the libraries built over the last ten years were built to accommodate additional housing on top of them once that was politically tenable.

I remember all of this discussion when the Tenley Library was being built. One of the major friction points to building condos on the library was that the footprint expanded to the loss of playing field area for Janney school. And that was before Janney was as crowded as it is today. Look there is no doubt that the libraries are seen as 'easy' targets for up zoning. Especially for city owned housing.

Of course you remember that discussion because you were one of the nutjobs whipping up hysteria about the proposal while coddling your privately schooled kid.

And because of hysterics like yours we have a crappy library and poor land use on that corner.

What's wrong with the library? Love it. Nicer than the old one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.dclibrary.org/sites/default/files/Document%208C.2%20-%20Mixed%20Use%20Real%20Estate%20Projects%20Policy%20-%20May%2014%2C%202020.pdf

Public Library District of Columbia

MIXED-USE REAL ESTATE PROJECTS POLICY

Since 2007, the Board of Library Trustees has led the transformation of the library campus
and recognized the need for a mixed-use real estate project policy to help guide the Library.
In 2007, the Board adopted its first mixed-use policy and amended the plan in 2014.
The Board of Library Trustees recognizes the District’s goal and commitment to housing
equity. In keeping with the equity objectives outlined in its Facilities Master Plan 2020-2030,
the Library will work to support the District’s Comprehensive Plan to ensure all residents
can continue to live in the city and benefit from economic, cultural and educational
opportunities.

Ensuring the delivery of quality library services and spaces is the primary focus of the Board
of Library Trustees when renovating or rebuilding libraries. With that in mind, the Library
shall explore and leverage any mixed-use development for future library projects as a
means to improve the quality of libraries, increase their accessibility and use, and expand
the inventory of affordable housing available to District residents.

Working in collaboration with all relevant District agencies but essentially the Office of the
Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and the District of Columbia
Housing Authority, the Board of Library Trustees will welcome appropriate mixed-use
opportunities and provide guidance and encouragement to library staff and other relevant
parties to ensure that the library system and the community receive the greatest possible
benefit.

Document #8C.2
Board of Library Trustees Meeting
May 14, 2020

This is a sop to Mayor Barry-Bowser and her developer johns. But the Tenley and architectural award-winning Cleveland Park libraries are already built. There is talk about renovating the Chevy Chase library, but the community will say “no thanks” if some dense mixed-use gift to a favored crony developer is part of the mix.

Last week, DC Library's Board of Trustees passed a resolution for DC libraries to leverage development of library properties for more housing.
Tenleytown's Library is built with extra structural supports to allow construction above the current structure.

The memo posted last week served as a reminder that all of the libraries built over the last ten years were built to accommodate additional housing on top of them once that was politically tenable.

I remember all of this discussion when the Tenley Library was being built. One of the major friction points to building condos on the library was that the footprint expanded to the loss of playing field area for Janney school. And that was before Janney was as crowded as it is today. Look there is no doubt that the libraries are seen as 'easy' targets for up zoning. Especially for city owned housing.

Of course you remember that discussion because you were one of the nutjobs whipping up hysteria about the proposal while coddling your privately schooled kid.

And because of hysterics like yours we have a crappy library and poor land use on that corner.

What's wrong with the library? Love it. Nicer than the old one.

Terrible lighting for reading and a complete lack of natural light and poor views to the outside. Leaky roof. The childrens area feels like sitting in a parking lot because you sort of are and after dark you often have headlights shining in on you. Lots of wasted space yet no nice open spaces where you can sit. The upstairs tween space isn't separated from the rest of the library so when the kids are horsing around (which is fine teen behavior but it happens every day) the noise is heard everywhere. Even the doors are poorly designed with no push bars on some of them so everyone uses the electric handicap door which creates even more noise.

Compared to the new public libraries in Cleveland Park and the Palisades it is a lousy design

[Anonymous]

What's wrong with the library? Love it. Nicer than the old one.

Terrible lighting for reading and a complete lack of natural light and poor views to the outside. Leaky roof. The childrens area feels like sitting in a parking lot because you sort of are and after dark you often have headlights shining in on you. Lots of wasted space yet no nice open spaces where you can sit. The upstairs tween space isn't separated from the rest of the library so when the kids are horsing around (which is fine teen behavior but it happens every day) the noise is heard everywhere. Even the doors are poorly designed with no push bars on some of them so everyone uses the electric handicap door which creates even more noise.

Compared to the new public libraries in Cleveland Park and the Palisades it is a lousy design

My family likes the library. It has tons of wasted space in it. Not sure what the deal is with the huge atrium which seems to be there simply for a homeless sleeping area and after school kids pizza eating area. If those are the purposes, great, otherwise, I am just not sure what that space is for. Seems the library could have used it.

The tech is always broken, but that is not a design problem but a system problem.

Another poster wrote it already but our largest issue with the new design is that it did not go far enough in the homeless services side. If in fact the DC libraries are going to be homeless day shelters, then they should be equipped as such. Maybe put a job resources section in there. Maybe a city services advocate in an office in there who can ensure that persons are availing themselves of programs available. And maybe a purpose built shower and hygiene room where people can go in and shower without having to turn the bathroom into a disaster by attempting to clean up under a hand sink. Instead of pretending that lots of library patrons are not homeless, just put the services there to better help them.

Oh and finally, the libraries need better sanitation budgets. They need to be scrubbed down regularly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is why zoning is important. Folks, if you don’t want to see SFH zoning ended, write to Mary Cheh and tell her that the mayor’s comp plan, “upFLUMming and “gentle density” plans should be DOA in NW

Please link to the proposal to end exclusive zoning for single-family-detached houses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This is why zoning is important. Folks, if you don’t want to see SFH zoning ended, write to Mary Cheh and tell her that the mayor’s comp plan, “upFLUMming and “gentle density” plans should be DOA in NW

Please link to the proposal to end exclusive zoning for single-family-detached houses?

Here you are. The mayor and her Office of Planning last month released their report and proposal to modify single family home zones to add soothing-sounding "gentle density development. The proposal, including the illustration on page 7 and the partial map of affected neighborhoods in Figure 8 make clear that "gentle density" could have significant impacts on a number of single family neighborhoods. The impacts go beyond zoning, planning, traffic and parking, to include enrollment demand in already over-capacity school areas.

https://plandc.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/Comprehensiveplan/007_Single%20Family%20Housing%20Report.pdf

The report asserts: "The District can accommodate additional housing options in its single-family zones using a targeted “gentle density” approach that recognizes the need for more housing in high-cost, high-opportunity neighborhoods, as well as near high-capacity transit. Gentle density refers to allowing additional housing density through context-sensitive development. The Mayor’s Comp Plan Proposal incorporates gentle density throughout its policies by encouraging development that respects neighborhood character, [note that the mayor waters down the existing requirement that new development "protect neighborhood character"] while considering neighborhood priorities, such as affordable housing and public facilities. The types of housing that could fit within a single- family neighborhood will vary but could include many different types of missing middle housing that are compatible in scale and design with single-family homes....For example, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, residential flats, or accessory apartments can be nearly indistinguishable in a detached single-family neighborhood and a small multi-unit building may not be out of context in an attached single-family neighborhood."

A map of single family neighborhoods as defined as near "high capacity transit" is at Figure 8. "High-cost, high-opportunity" (for developers?) neighborhoods are not mapped in the document.

The concept of what the mayor and OP mean by "gentle density" is shown on page 7. If implemented, the OP's proposals would modify SFH zoning categories in the neighborhoods shown in Figure 8 (and the TBD "high cost, high opportunity" neighborhoods) to permit the heights and densities shown, well beyond the major arterial roadways where transit is located.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This is why zoning is important. Folks, if you don’t want to see SFH zoning ended, write to Mary Cheh and tell her that the mayor’s comp plan, “upFLUMming and “gentle density” plans should be DOA in NW

Please link to the proposal to end exclusive zoning for single-family-detached houses?

Here you are. The mayor and her Office of Planning last month released their report and proposal to modify single family home zones to add soothing-sounding "gentle density development. The proposal, including the illustration on page 7 and the partial map of affected neighborhoods in Figure 8 make clear that "gentle density" could have significant impacts on a number of single family neighborhoods. The impacts go beyond zoning, planning, traffic and parking, to include enrollment demand in already over-capacity school areas.

https://plandc.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/Comprehensiveplan/007_Single%20Family%20Housing%20Report.pdf

The report asserts: "The District can accommodate additional housing options in its single-family zones using a targeted “gentle density” approach that recognizes the need for more housing in high-cost, high-opportunity neighborhoods, as well as near high-capacity transit. Gentle density refers to allowing additional housing density through context-sensitive development. The Mayor’s Comp Plan Proposal incorporates gentle density throughout its policies by encouraging development that respects neighborhood character, [note that the mayor waters down the existing requirement that new development "protect neighborhood character"] while considering neighborhood priorities, such as affordable housing and public facilities. The types of housing that could fit within a single- family neighborhood will vary but could include many different types of missing middle housing that are compatible in scale and design with single-family homes....For example, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, residential flats, or accessory apartments can be nearly indistinguishable in a detached single-family neighborhood and a small multi-unit building may not be out of context in an attached single-family neighborhood."

A map of single family neighborhoods as defined as near "high capacity transit" is at Figure 8. "High-cost, high-opportunity" (for developers?) neighborhoods are not mapped in the document.

The concept of what the mayor and OP mean by "gentle density" is shown on page 7. If implemented, the OP's proposals would modify SFH zoning categories in the neighborhoods shown in Figure 8 (and the TBD "high cost, high opportunity" neighborhoods) to permit the heights and densities shown, well beyond the major arterial roadways where transit is located.

Oh, so by "end SFH zoning," you actually meant, "modify SFH zoning in a few limited areas." OK, thanks.

[Anonymous]

“Modify” = end.
Nice try, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

This is why zoning is important. Folks, if you don’t want to see SFH zoning ended, write to Mary Cheh and tell her that the mayor’s comp plan, “upFLUMming and “gentle density” plans should be DOA in NW

Please link to the proposal to end exclusive zoning for single-family-detached houses?

Here you are. The mayor and her Office of Planning last month released their report and proposal to modify single family home zones to add soothing-sounding "gentle density development. The proposal, including the illustration on page 7 and the partial map of affected neighborhoods in Figure 8 make clear that "gentle density" could have significant impacts on a number of single family neighborhoods. The impacts go beyond zoning, planning, traffic and parking, to include enrollment demand in already over-capacity school areas.

https://plandc.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/Comprehensiveplan/007_Single%20Family%20Housing%20Report.pdf

The report asserts: "The District can accommodate additional housing options in its single-family zones using a targeted “gentle density” approach that recognizes the need for more housing in high-cost, high-opportunity neighborhoods, as well as near high-capacity transit. Gentle density refers to allowing additional housing density through context-sensitive development. The Mayor’s Comp Plan Proposal incorporates gentle density throughout its policies by encouraging development that respects neighborhood character, [note that the mayor waters down the existing requirement that new development "protect neighborhood character"] while considering neighborhood priorities, such as affordable housing and public facilities. The types of housing that could fit within a single- family neighborhood will vary but could include many different types of missing middle housing that are compatible in scale and design with single-family homes....For example, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, residential flats, or accessory apartments can be nearly indistinguishable in a detached single-family neighborhood and a small multi-unit building may not be out of context in an attached single-family neighborhood."

A map of single family neighborhoods as defined as near "high capacity transit" is at Figure 8. "High-cost, high-opportunity" (for developers?) neighborhoods are not mapped in the document.

The concept of what the mayor and OP mean by "gentle density" is shown on page 7. If implemented, the OP's proposals would modify SFH zoning categories in the neighborhoods shown in Figure 8 (and the TBD "high cost, high opportunity" neighborhoods) to permit the heights and densities shown, well beyond the major arterial roadways where transit is located.

Oh, so by "end SFH zoning," you actually meant, "modify SFH zoning in a few limited areas." OK, thanks.

If one takes Ward 3 as an example, it includes a wide swath of many neighborhoods as so many houses are within a half mile of a Metro station or a quarter-mike if a bus stop. And those are just the so-called “transit-oriented” neighborhoods. “High-cost, high-opportunity” designations by OP could easily impact more areas, particularly west of the Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Modify” = end.
Nice try, though.

If you want to call it "end exclusive SFH zoning," that's fine with me.

"End SFH zoning" makes it sound like single-family-detached houses would no longer be allowed, and that's just not so.