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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just found this thread. So fun. I have NEVER really understood the argument for increasing density in the name of saving the planet and global warming. Maybe at the expense of humanity as we are seeing.

Anyway, why does there seem to be an assumption in this thread that Single Family Homes are being occupied by predominately singles and empty nesters? There seem to be LOTS of families with kids of all ages in green leafy DC neighborhoods.

My family has been getting a daily walk or two over the course of this event. I must say that I am very grateful that I am walking through green neighborhoods and not concrete canyons that the "make it denser and build it higher" lobby are always pushing for. Whoever passed the current height laws was a visionary and knew that people needed to breathe.

Good luck to all. Enjoy your wide quiet streets in these times.[/quote]

This is so true!  Let’s keep Washington low-scale, green and walkable.  [/quote]

Washington has a great quantity of green space and always will and additional development won't remove any of Washington's green space so its unclear what you are even talking about.

And there is nothing about density that is incompatible with walkability - in fact generally speaking it is the opposite that is the case as dense areas have to be walkable to function while low dense areas tend to be car dependent and hostile to pedestrians.

In any case even the dense areas of DC are pretty low scale by just about any measure - global, national or even regional.

But hey keep on being misinformed and conflating things![/quote]

The Office of Planning is pushing a plan with the soothing sounding name of “gentle density” that would change single family house zones.  The OP proposed future land use map in fact identified a large swatch of the Wisconsin area, including residential streets of Tenleytown, AU Park, McLean Gardens, Cleveland Park, etc several blocks from the Avenue as a special zoning study area in which the planning agency could upzone density by directive (according to the map key).[/quote]

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