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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC had a choice over the past decade. Promote policies to make the city more family friendly or encourage policies that favor family-less young people and DINKs. It deliberately chose the latter because those people pay taxes but don’t use many services. The next decade DC is going to pay for this short-sighted direction to turn the city into a playground for young people instead of making it more family friendly. [/quote]

It's funny--DC  can have both if it wanted. When I had a family I moved from a 'playground' neighborhood to a 'family' neighborhood (as a working poor and then middle class/never 'wealthy'). I did it knowing that to the rest of the city my new neighborhood is where people wear elastic waist pants and clutch pearls. Sure, I'm sometimes wistful when I cruise U St. for the ghost of myself I see eating pizza at 1 AM and grinding strangers in the clubs, but it doesn't call to me as a parent. Good on the people who are who live there, and the people who are young and enjoying themselves. It's good to have options! What I don't like about the comp plan is in my perception it wants to turn all 'desirable neighborhoods' --currently desirable for different reasons--into the SAME neighborhood. I love that DC has variety (including parts of the city that are not desirable to developers but have lovely character and should receive attention in terms of supermarkets and other amenities). The Comp is so single-minded, and yes, families will leave if it is just condo after condo after condo. I suspect young people may not love having zero varied neighborhood choices as they 'mature' as well.[/quote]

Great post.[/quote]

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