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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward 3 Vision's new agenda includes pushing changes to the DC Comprehensive Plan to enable the so-called "missing middle."

Anyone who lives within 6 blocks of a major street should pay attention to this, because it could mean up-zoning of single family residential streets for commercial use, "multiplex" apartment building, triplexes/quadplexes, etc.  Here's an illustration of what Ward 3 Vision's vision entails -- expanding height and density off the major arterials and commercial districts into detached single family residential neighborhoods:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MMH_diagram_w_lables_for_sharing.jpg[/quote]

That is excellent. If you look at how Cleveland Park developed, there are high rises on the avenue and then the garden apartments, which are pretty high density despite being just 3 stories, and then it tapers to the single family homes. All of our metro neighborhoods should be like this. Thank you for sharing.

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Most of Cleveland Park's streets are single family homes.  Their historic district likely would offer some protection if Ward 3 Vision gets its way.  In Tenleytown, AU Park, Chevy Chase DC, which don't have an historic district or only have a very small one, it will become open season on tear-downs for denser development.  [/quote]

And it is focus on the transit corridors and it provides more housing opportunities, more retail opportunities, more jobs etc, then what is the issue? No one is proposing to raze existing single family neighborhoods.[/quote]

In fact, that's exactly what they are proposing, through the Comprehensive Plan amendments.  They would effectively expand the higher density commercial and mixed-use zones from currently .about one block of either side of the existing arterial corridors to several blocks into existing single family neighborhoods.
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This is provably untrue.

All of the comments & proposed Comp Plan amendments are here:

https://plandc.dc.gov/

Under the [i]Proposed Amendments to the Text[/i] of the Comprehensive Plan During Open Call link and are easily searchable - please cite a single instance where someone proposed upzoning single family housing areas? [/quote]

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