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:lol:  :lol: Ask the retailers in Cleveland Park.  Ask the residents and visitors who can't find street parking anywhere close to the CP strip.  Only myopic urbanists and naive ideological planners believe that no one drives.  A few developers, hoping to push their costs of providing off street parking onto the public, say it also.  But they don't believe it, as they turn evasive and crimson when asked to covenant that their new development will not get RPP parking eligibility.[/quote]

Won't someone think of the drivers?[/quote]

+100 - the DDOT survey of visitors to Cleveland Park a few years back showed that 80% of the visitors to CP were in some manner arriving on foot.

If you plan for cars you will get cars and traffic.

Or you can plan for people and get people.

CP cannot compete against Bethesda for people who want to drive.  But for people who don't want to drive it is doing a poor job of competing against nicer more walkable neighborhoods with its stupid service lane and overlap.

I bet Cleveland Park is losing more business to people leaving the neighborhood for more vibrant DC neighborhoods to eat and shop than it is losing because drivers can't find parking and BTW it is not actually hard to park in Cleveland Park though that is in part because so few people want to actually go there.[/quote]

Cue the person from the Private School/GDS thread who admitted they drive to other neighborhoods for entertainment and food.[/quote]

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