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However, I must continue to repeat myself, you do not have a right to buy property anywhere you want to at the price you want to pay.[/quote]

And you don’t have a right over another person’s property. Up zoning just gives your neighbor a choice of SFH or more dense housing. If they want to build a triplex, that’s their right. [/quote]

Why are you so interested in destroying SFH neighborhoods??  If I buy a house in neighborhood of SFHs, that is what I want in a neighborhood.  No, I do not want to live in a neighborhood of SFHs, duplexes, triplexes, etc.   Otherwise, I live elsewhere.  And, in the DMV, I have options.   Guess who pays the taxes.  Those in the larger SFHs.  Note also that, while DC may be growing now, it has not always, and its growth rate is actually slowing.  DC still has not returned to its 1950 level when over 800K people lived in DC.  In 2000, DC was as low as 572K, at a time when the DMV was booming.  DC has plenty of space to build residential housing.  The only folks pushing upzoning are smaller developers, plus those who wish to change the character of other people's neighborhoods.[/quote]

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