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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A tree in a city full of trees is not important enough to justify not building/remodeling a home. It’s just not.

Trees aren’t rare. Ever fly over DC? It looks like a forest. There are thousands of “hundred year old trees” in DC.

Cut it down. Build. Plant another when construction is finished.

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I'd rather have more trees.

What's the point of adding more housing? We already live in one of the most densely populated cities in the country. These politicians who say we can create affordable housing by building more are lying to you. How is that supposed to happen, precisely? There are approximately 350,000 housing units in the city. Bowser would like to add 30,000. She'll be lucky if she gets half that. What is that going to accomplish? That's like saying you're fighting climate change by doing a better job recycling your Coke cans.

The number of housing units people want to add are far, far too small to make any difference, especially in an area where people are moving into the city and out of the suburbs. We have 5 million people in the suburbs. You don't think 0.3 percent (15,000 divided by 5 million) of them would rather live in the city? I guess you could go buy their old place in Manassas. [/quote]

More trees?

We’re already AT tree saturation. Where would more trees go? There’s only so much room. And it’s already occupied with existing trees. [/quote]

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