Reply to Chevy Chase Community Center Redevelopment

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Chevy Chase Community Center Redevelopment"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chevy Chase DC on Connecticut Avenue is almost the perfect village shopping district in the city.  Its mixture of neighborhood-serving retail and dining options is quite nice, as is the pedestrian scale.  I don’t understand the imperative of downtown DC planners to turn this attractive area in to Friendship Heights East.  Is their planning goal that every Washington neighborhood should become a generic riff on the Navy Yard?[/quote]

The city wants to take its own property and put it to better use for more people that includes housing, a new community center and new library. Why is this a bad thing?[/quote]

Because people who live in the area don't want it. We like our neighborhood village feel and don't need some developer to come in and turn it into some generic soulless development that mainly benefits the developers themselves. The Connecticut Ave apartments are teeming with vacancies. There's not housing shortage in Ward 3. Turn those into affordable housing. More people equals a more polluted city. Residential buildings are the second largest contributor to greenhouse gases (after commercial buildings) in DC.  Single family housing is greener for DC.

https://doee.dc.gov/service/greenhouse-gas-inventories
[/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