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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cleveland Park was built exactly for what it was zoned for. It wasn't zoned to be any more dense than that. If you wanted it to be more dense, then city-wide zoning laws needed to have been changed.[/quote]

Zoning code was developed in 1958. It conformed to what was built in Cleveland Park in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

At this point, it is a historic district and cannot transform. But  it is a waste of billions of dollars of regional investment not to have a few more people able to live on top of a metro station.

You realize this causes both development of greenfields "out there" as well as artificailly increased housing prices in the District, right?[/quote]

You realize that there are almost 2000 new housing units already under permit but not yet constructed within a one-mile radius of the Cleveland Park Metro?  And that doesn't include anything east of Rock Creek Park.  [/quote]

Fannie Mae on Wisconsin Avenue doesn't even qualify as Cleveland Park, and is a whole different neighborhood than the subject of this thread.[/quote]

From the standpoint of economic development and transit use, it's very relevant.  The Deputy Mayor for Economic Development uses a one-mile radius in its studies, including the one that it did in the last two years on Cleveland Park.  One mile to a Metro development is considered "transit accessible" from a zoning perspective.  2000 new housing units within the Cleveland Park area will add a significant number of potential users for transit and customers for local restaurants and other businesses.  At the same time, there will be clear traffic, parking and school enrollment impacts locally.

In any event, given real estate submarkets and very different demand curves, it is highly doubtful that upscale condos and flats are fungible with townhouses and SFHs on Germantown "greenfields."[/quote]

Bottom line, new residents at the former Fannie Mae site will be oriented to Tenleytown, not Cleveland Park.[/quote]

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