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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or do you prefer one party rule like Russia? Thinking a plurality may be a good thing. Slinging insults less so as we try to move forward as a people who all care about America ( or in this case our city). Let's hear the guys platform. Not everyone is DC is pro bike lanes (ask the black churches bout that) or pro paving over all our greenery and building shoebox luxury condos for singletons.[/quote]

What greenery is being paved over for new development in Ward 3?[/quote]

The footprint of the Fannie Mae front lawn is now certainly smaller. Have you walked by? Also greenery refers to environmental impact.  Developers LOVE to tout their pro building/density anti car green mantra, but they are not doing a great job with carbon credits. The massive building next to Fannie Mae was meant to be rehabbed, not knocked down and rebuilt. Do you have any idea the carbon impact with that slick move? No accountability with the developer "agreements". They just change the plan and say oops.  (Also, have to say that if what they are building is what's on the photos on the construction wall, wow, ANOTHER urban loft. So boring and last decade aesthetically.) And last, you KNOW they hate single family and duplex "footprints" and would build up to the sidewalk if they could raze and replace.[/quote]

You've got it all bass ackwards and have no idea what you are talking.

Aside from the curb cut to reach the underground garage (which is for parking "environmentalists" like you insist on) the front lawn is unchanged.

So do you have any actual examples in Ward 3 of green space that has been converted to housing?

It would not necessarily be a bad idea to do that by the way if it were near transit and high density but I would be very surprised if you can furnish an actual example.[/quote]

The yards of the houses at Macomb and Connecticut and Norton and
Connecticut where big buildings are going in where there is or used to be green space. [/quote]

That's what you came up with?  As I said on transit lines this trade off is a huge environmental plus and in this case I doubt it was more than 300 square feet of grass lost.  DC has the strictest green building standards in the country - don't know the specifics of this project but even without a green roof or rooftop solar this new building being constructed to meet DC's storm water retention requirements almost certainly alone makes this a greener use of this busy corner.  Where there happens to be a bus stop on one of the highest frequent bus corridors in the region.

Do you have any better examples?[/quote]

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