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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep the library there but build 10 or 12 floors of flats, mixture of upscale and affordable.  A win-win.[/quote]

this. But of course CP will argue its about character, never mind that most of Conn Avenue has apartment buidlings. They easily could have added at least 4 stories or housing but then a lot of it would have been affordable and no way are the limo liberals in CP allowing that to happen.[/quote]

You might be surprised that the second highest number of rent controlled units in the entire city are in Ward 3, and many of them are in or near Cleveland Park, along Connecticut and Wisconsin Avenues.  The older apartment buildings definitely provide a lot of more affordable units.   The irony is that the GGW/Smart Growth crowd wants to upzone the avenues further for downtown height and density.  This would mean that these affordable buildings and rent controlled units would be replaced by upscale condos and flats, with relatively little 'inclusive zoning' units (which by the way are NOT the same thing as affordable or RC units) to compensate.
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And if you had half a brain you'd know that 1)DC has very few rent controlled apartments and 2) there are no income requirements to get a rent controlled apartment.

Which is another way of saying rent controlled apartments are utterly irrelevant when it comes to talking about the mix of affordable units in DC so this argument you keep making on here about Ward 3's rent controlled apartments being under threat is just absurd - particularly because there is no reason to believe that the units are under threat![/quote]

There might not be a lot of rent-controlled apartments in DC, but there are a lot of rent-controlled apartments along that stretch of Conn Ave and up into Van Ness/Forest Hills.  I know this because we just did a round of apartment-hunting there.  There are no income requirements, but I don't see how eliminating them helps the cause of affordable housing, either.  Anything new that gets built is going to be more expensive, at least based on current stock.  The non-rent-controlled buildings have nicer finishes and amenities, but they are smaller and more expensive.  [/quote]

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