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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So instead of having a higher tax base, wealthier residents moving in and better options you'll take Babes, a Giant stuck in the 1920s and still have the traffic except they're from Maryland not DC. It's not like they plan to develop Newark or Macomb. It's the main thoroughfares![/quote]

It's not thru-traffic, it's the tens of hundreds of cars circling the residential blocks, looking for free on-street parking.  Then they get understandably pissed and create a "spot" hanging over 50% of your driveway.  Think Adams Morgan.   No thanks.[/quote]

The driveway blocking "complaint" is such a red herring.  Call the cops, get them ticketed and towed.  I seriously doubt your driveway (if you have one)is inaccessible every weekend.  More likely, your beef is that the people looking for free on-street parking are making it more difficult for YOU to find free on-street parking.  To which I say, tough.  It's a public street, you have no inherent right to free parking.  [/quote]

It's not a red herring.  Getting someone ticketed and towed for blocking a driveway in DC is usually a one or two day affair.  Unless some drunken yuppie has forgotten his car all weekend, it's not worth the hassle.  You just have to wait out the bar/restaurant patron for a few hours and miss whatever you needed to leave your driveway for.  Of course, the parking miscreant may come back many hours later, and it's no fun being awakened at 3 in the morning, after the bars close, by some drunken lout shouting to his friends and relieving himself in your front yard.  Perhaps if one moves by M Street in Georgetown or 18th Street in Adams-Morgan, one might say that the homeowner knew of the nuisance.   But I could understand the reluctance of someone who lives a couple blocks away from the neighborhood-serving retail strip in Chevy Chase DC, for example. not wanting to see the whole area redeveloped as some "Clarendon Generica Commons" restaruant, bar and destination retail center.

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