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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s less the upzoning itself and more the lack of infrastructure funding. You bring in more people, you need more capacity in school, on roads and transit, and other services. The problem lies in the “incentives” for developers to build more, which often means waving impact taxes for a decade or more. Somebody has to pay for things, and it’s pretty much always going to be the residents. Either existing homeowners through property taxes, or new residents through costs being pushed onto housing costs. Developers NEVER make any concessions. They ALWAYS maximize profit. [/quote]

You can solve that problem by getting rid of the incentives. [/quote]

That doesn't solve the problem of over capacity schools that can't handle additional students, police and fire stations already miles away, parking and roads designed for limited traffic.

That being said, the areas around metro stations and the new foxhall elementary school is ripe for increased density because of their soon to be excess school space.  The main problem with upzoning is a complete unwillingness to acknowledge that the social infrastructure is capped out and there is no land to build what would be needed.[/quote]

A lot of the area around Foxhall is already zoned for much higher density, low-rise apartment buildings. Gradually the single-family homes are being replaced with small apartment buildings. There's still a lot more density that could be added under existing zoning.

This gets to OP's original question: not every lot gets built out to maximum allowed density automatically. Even if there were to be upzoning it would take decades for the housing stock to turn over. [/quote]

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