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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capitol Hill USED to be a food desert, but is the opposite now. I can walk to all of the stores (except for the Navy Yard ones) listed in the PP in 30 minutes or less.[/quote]
So it doesn’t have the amenities if a “15 minute city” like it should. Probably because it’s too low density which is why housing is so expensive. Need to remove the historical designation so they can build more housing. [/quote]

You might want to take at look at housing costs in nearby high density areas such as Navy Yard, NoMa, Union Market, H Street, 14th Street, Columbia Heights, etc. And for sh*ts and giggles, the new high density development at Eastern Market and Hill East around the Safeway and Fragers. it’s fun to live untethered to the real world. [/quote]
Clearly those areas are not high density enough. However, if all of Capitol Hill was a high density as Navy Yard then rent on Capital Hill AND Navy Yard would not be so expensive. That’s a no brainer and a strong reason why the historical designation needs to be removed and the neighborhood upzoned.[/quote]

So let’s bulldoze all the rowhouse is a no brainer? Because that worked so well with the “urban renewal” movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Just keep building, regardless of repercussions. The same simplistic thinking that presupposes traffic jams will disappear if we just keep adding lanes to highways. You might want to spend some time in Navy Yard before trying to tell us that it’s not high density enough. The housing market is more complicated than what you learned about supply and demand in perfect markets in high school Economics. [/quote]

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