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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward 3 will fight any affordable or public housing faster and harder than they will fight boundary changes.  There is one housing authority site in all of upper NW and its for Seniors (cause you know, those are the less threatening poor folks).   They fight affordablity in many ways including fighting any building where the height would trigger mandatory inclusionary zoning. They fought apts on top of the new Tenley library cause they new it would bring lower income kids and crowd their prcious Janney.  There is zero political will to push for an equitable distribution of public housing. And yes, the boundary changes will survive a legal battle. The vast majority of schools in the country are de facto segragated due to living patterns.   So unless DC is going to start forcing busing of Ward 3 kids to eastern, then there is no legal way to enforce divserity at Wilson.[/quote]

This is total BS.  I followed the zoning hearings for one of the biggest construction projects in NW, Cathedral Commons, very closely.  It was shocking how the developers and their attorneys bobbed and weaved to evade inclusionary zoning requirements when the community pressed them on it.  First, the developers argued that they should be allowed more "bonus" density than zoning allowed because they were including affordable housing units in the project.  Then they argued that they the same paltry affordable housing should be credited as an "amenity" to allow them to sidestep parking regulations.  And what of the affordable units that they argued were "bonus"-worthy and "amenties"?  They were the bare minimum required by the DC inclusionary zoning law.  And where are these few affordable units to be located?  Closest to the loading dock and the main HVAC towers.   When the neighborhood pointed out how evasive the developers were being on affordable housing, the zoning commissioners just shrugged and approved the plans.[/quote]

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