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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in DC, and I'm really liking it. It's not like NYC where it's hard to find space. I can go for a walk and maintain plenty of distance, but I can also have a porch happy hour where I can chat with all my neighbors while we are all on our own porches. I can be by myself yet not feel lonely. [/quote]

DC is livable. NYC is not. [/quote]

I vote for less density. More green space, fewer condo buildings. [/quote]

Please provide a single example in DC of green space that was converted to condos or any other type of housing?[/quote]

One example: Ward 3 homeless shelter[/quote]

Nope please try again.   The Ward 3 homeless shelter was constructed on part of the police stations parking lot.[/quote]

Wow, you really do not know what went into that project do you? Keep living in your make believe world where construction occurs on existing parking lots.

When you do read up on it, understand that, I realize that the plot of land is owned by DC. My point was that it was green, they changed the zoning to accommodate it and now it is concrete. Lots of examples, both private and public that fit this example. AU Nebraska Ave development. I understand it is private. It used to have a setback and now is built from the sidewalk to the developments behind it. Is it awful? No, it is actually attractive, but it has changed that open walk considerably. Now imagine the entire corridor like that.[/quote]

It's strange because I live nearby, attended most of the public meetings about the shelter and the Giant down the block is my grocery store so I go by at least weekly.

The shelter is clearly on the part of the police stations parking lot to the west of the station.

I'm really not sure how else to respond to you - the plans are on-line all over the place and if we weren't social distancing I'd offer to meet you there to show you but somehow I have the feeling you'd deny things that are right in front of you.

And the AU Nebraska Ave development you must be really ignorant about because in that case that entire lot was covered by an asphalt parking lot.  Now rather than being used to store cars (hows that for a green use of land in a space constrained city??) the lot now houses people in an entirely LEED certified complex and there is now a green buffer with several hundred trees on the lot that weren't there before.

So yeah those are both in fact great examples of what we should be doing in a warming world - replacing surface parking lots with housing.

Did you want to try again to find an example of green space converted to housing?[/quote]

It’s not that simple.  Don’t forget that DC decreed the homeless shelter location on the police parking lot without ever talking with MPD beforehand.  That sent Mary Cheh and Bowser on a frantic scramble to build a large above-ground multistory parking garage for the police on green space owned by the DC government next to the community gardens.  It was built cheaply, quick (for DC) and is really fugly.  The garage sits directly across the street from McLean Gardens homes.  DC promised to put green screening around the garage (not sure how exactly), but seems to have assigned that task to the same crack office that is in charge of tree canopy preservation at nearby Hearst Park.  In others words, nothing.  [/quote]

it really is fugly. Bizarre that they would paw developers tax  money to erect a total eyesore.[/quote]

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