Reply to Soooo, how is high-density looking to everyone now?

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Soooo, how is high-density looking to everyone now?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote]The mayor and OP say it’s the same document as was proposed in the fall with just some minor tweaks, so no need for a new comment period.  At the same time they insist that the Plan has been developed to respond to Coronavirus and thus needs to be passed with urgency.  Because Bowser is not too bright, she assumes that most voters are dummies, too.[/quote]

No they have not done that - please provide the citation for that.  Someone is hell bent on conflating things and it is really unclear why when what they are saying is provably untrue.[/quote]

I have been reading this from afar. This PP is interesting. They love using the term 'conflate' in an attempt to discredit and provide no real substance to the argument at the same time. It is my understanding that the poster was arguing that the Single Family Home report, Produced by the Office of Planning, is providing recommendations to the Mayor at the request of the Mayor. I say that because that is what the report says. Meanwhile in January it was the Office of Planning that was responsible for collecting ANC input to the COMP Plan in order to consolidate comments and provide one updated COMP Plan proposal to the City Council for debate. Now, for some reason the order that this all happened in was public discussions first under a set of rules identified by the OP and approved by the Mayor. After the public discussion period and submissions, the Office of Planning collected comments and responded to ANC's and then released its Single Family Housing Report. The Single Family Housing report effectively changed the playing field as it lays clear that while zoning will not change, zoning functionality will change. It basically in one report rendered previous discussions meaningless because it outlined that the public was not playing with all of the information.

Ex.

1. (Nov '19) Have this debate with the certainty that not one single family zoned house will have it zoning upzoned in Ward 3. (How many times have we heard this on this thread)
2. (Jan '20) Provide, recommendations to the Comp Plan knowing that not one single family zoned house will change on the FLUM.
3. (Mar '20) Here is the consolidated and revised Comp Plan without one single family zoned house upzoned in the proposed Comp Plan.
4. (Apr '20) Here is the Single Family Housing Report where we will recommend targeted growth in single family zoned areas through 'gentle densification' and creating missing middleman housing within single family zoned areas without needing to change the zoning rules.

The public was given one set of rules why the Office of Planning and the Mayor were planning an end around the entire time. Had the public known about the Single Family Housing Report in November, it would have informed their debate for the required submissions in January.

There is nothing being conflated here. The public had one requirement with one set of rules and the Office of Planning (the same agency that established the set of rules) changed the playing field after the period of public comment was concluded and released a new document showing its newly interpreted scope of housing planning.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics