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Please.  There are 1500 new housing units rising on just two blocks of Wisconsin alone.  There have been a number of buildings added along Wisconsin Ave, as well as in Chevy Chase/Friendship Heights, Tenleytown, and Woodley.  There’s a large development slated for the heart of AU Park.  The “smart growther” Arent satiated because they’re basically the echo chamber for real estate developers and speculators who are not satiated.  And they especially want windfall profit opportunities they would result from upzoning in Ward 3.  As for “climate change,” go ask developers if they are willing to covenant that buyers and tenants will be ineligible for street RPP permits for their cars.  They’ll look at you like you’re crazy.  [/quote]

DC has added something like 70,000 new housing units in the last 15 years and you can cite a couple of thousand units that have been built or in the process of being built in Ward 3. I can count on two hands the number of residential buildings that have opened along the entire length of Wisconsin Avenue the twenty years I've lived in Upper NW.

Who cares if the developers make money - the person who made my house did so to make money.  Same as the person who made your house. It would be a problem if people making housing couldn't make money doing so because housing is sort of an important thing.

And you are oddly ignorant about global warming and how to address it as well as what has happened in Ward 3 - in fact a number of the developers have agreed to prohibit their addresses from being included in the RPP database though why you think that has something to do with global warming is beyond me.

But you think global warming is just about driving, probably because for you driving is the extent of how you think about getting yourself around your privileged corner of DC.

But new housing in close in neighborhoods is about the greenest housing you can build - DC has the greenest housing codes in the country (only CA has more LEED certified buildings) so people who move into this new housing are moving into about the most energy efficient housing being built.  People in these buildings own fewer cars, drive the cars they own much less and use transit to a much greater degree than people living in new housing further out.

And having new people in DC supports more public transit, more neighborhood serving retail, more jobs in DC and increases the cities coffers which is why DC has spent so much money the last 10 years on infrastructure and is now sitting on 1.5 billion in the bank.

And the downside to Ward 3 is what exactly?  You will have a harder time finding free parking on the street when you drive to FH to shop at Nieman Marcus?  You will feel suffocated by seeing a 9 story building?  You will be upset that a surface parking lot has been converted to housing?[/quote]

Step 1 to fixing this in Ward 3: Consolidate UDC's academic operations into a couple of buildings, which can easily be done.
Step 2: Take that land -- perhaps the most inefficiently used large parcel in DC outside of the RFK site -- and stuff it with housing for all income levels.

I realize UDC has political pull and it's a sacred cow to some who hold power in DC, but it shouldn't be. That land sits basically on top of a Metro station. It shouldn't go unused for much of the year.

Either that, or housing for non-students should be built on the campus itself, which currently is a dead zone at all times. [/quote]

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