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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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
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*some* people who live in the area don't want it

there are plenty of people who live in the area who do want it

More people does not equal a more polluted city, particularly if said people are walking, bikin or using mass transit to get to work

but nice coded racist language to assume that the "poors" who would be living there are "dirty" - that is a you problem.[/quote]

Ah, yes, if the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.  And your implicit assumption about my race is off the mark too.

Since you can't deal with the evidence-based link that actually shows that commercial and residential buildings are the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the district (by far outstripping that produced by passenger vehicles for those reading along), you tried to throw in some sort of misguided race card because you have no facts on which to hang your argument.

On your comment about "many" wanting bike lanes.[b] It seems that those who don't want the bike lanes outstrip those who do, given the plan to go back to the drawing board on the lanes. The is little to no bike traffic on Connecticut Ave NW at any given time, suggesting the demand for the bike lanes is largely rooted in the figments of the bike lobby members' imaginations [/b](and let's add the GGW ANC members for good measure).

I won't even address your malicious attempt to twist words, so let's again stick to facts. The biggest greenhouse gas emitters in DC are commercial and residential buildings. So yeah, more people does equal to more pollution.  And I don't think the Chevy Chase Library site is a realistic site for people to walk to work, as you suggest.

Since when does affordable housing = "poors?" Affordable housing differs from low-income housing, which is apparently what you were referring to in very pejorative terms. Since when does "poors" = race?  Your assumptions say so much about your own twisted biases. But again, when the facts don't o your way, pound the table and yell like hell.

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There is little bike traffic on CT Ave because it is a dangerous as EFF road to ride on.[/quote]

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