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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support this. It will help bring down housing costs, and greater density is more environmentally friendly.[/quote]

In the city, green spaces and shade trees and resulting cooler spaces amid urban heat islands are definitely more environmentally friendly.  Hip upscale, mixed-use condo towers will neither bring prices down nor save corn fields in Frederick County.  Different market segments, different residential demographics.[/quote]

Where do you think the new residents will come from?  Spontaneous generation of yuppies?[/quote]

You realize there is both population growth, more desirability to live in cities and particularly DC, right? DC has grown by 100,000 in the last 10 or so years. At its peak, DC had over 800,000 residents. There is no reason not to at least try to get to that level.[/quote]

DC had the current height limit yet housed 800,000 people.

No  Rosslyn-style towers necessary.   Imagine that

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At a time when due to wartime conditions, you couldn't build new housing in the suburbs (and cars were expensive relative to incomes, etc).  So people lived crowded in DC - during the war people even "hotsheeted" - shift workers took turns using beds.

Today if you limit DC's pops you won't get people doing that.  You will mostly get more sprawl.  Though as you increase rents in DC and in the suburbs you MIGHT get more homelessness. Certainly you get immigrant families doubling and tripling up in suburban low rise apt complexes.   I don't think that is a good thing.   "All are welcome, but not to decent living conditions" [/quote]

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