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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the new complex at Conn & Military getting commercial businesses in the first floor? That seems like the more sensible place for the next fast casual place to wind up.[/quote]

No, one of the shortcomings of the current zoning code is that parcel is zoned purely for residential. Had they wanted to go mixed use with retail, they would have needed zoning relief, and caused even more pain for the nearby residents (and dragged the case on for another two years). As a result, they went straight matter of right, which in my opinion, is a loss. It would have been great to have a small amount of retail there.

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Yes and no.  If you look at the history of how Connecticut Ave was planned, it carefully has commercial areas set between residential areas, including multi family buildings set back from the avenue.  DuPont Circle, Woodley, Cleveland Park, Van Ness, the area near Politics and Prose were the commercial strips, which included mixed use.  Then there are blocks and clocks in-between with purely residential. Massachusetts is almost entirely residential and institutional except for the modest Spring Valley commercial area.  Upper Wisconsin by contrast was less planned with more of a commercial and residential hodge podge. Putting mixed use commercial at Military and Conn. would change this planning construct for Connecticut (which is why a mixed use PUD probably would not have been approved there), and in any case there's blocks and blocks of commercial zoned space a few blocks away.[/quote]

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