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Reply to "Developers in D.C. are free to cut down "protected" trees"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pick one: 1. affordable housing and green lighting the development needed to increase density or 2. having the proper tree canopy to ensure DC doesn’t act like a heat sink. Either way, all the stereotypicaly, upper class folks with plenty of yard signs proclaiming their virtue to us all will be hypocritical about this when they choose trees and nimbyism over their desire to help poor people and address cutting trees down to make room for projects.. [/quote] This is a terrible false equivalence. You don't need to build skyscrapers to achieve the development needed. You could increase the housing capacity of the city by like 30% simply by eliminating single family zoning without cutting down a single tree because duplexes can be built on the existing footprints. Axe the height limit in the urban core and you can expand it even further without touching a single mature tree. [/quote]
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