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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.

Most zoning in Ward 3 prohibits duplexes or even rowhouses now.

That is what the so-called Urbanists are trying to help address.[/quote]

What the DC Smart Growth lobby is pushing are 10-12 story buildings on major streets, even in low-rise historic districts in Ward 3.  On the side streets, they push soothing-sounding “gentle density.”  This means that a developer could build a small apartment building of 8 or 9 units in a SFH zone.  So instead of a tear down that results in a mini-mansion next door to you, an apartment building could be built next to SFHs on a side street, with no parking requirements. All of this is “matter of right” which means no review of plans by the zoning commission and no challenges by neighbors.[/quote]

You realize that most American cities that people love, NY, Philadelphia, Boston - have an intermix of SFH and small apartment buildings, right? And yet, people clamor to live there and love it.

And...there are ways of designing and building multi-family buildings, maybe 2-4 units, that actually LOOK like SFH, but are designed to simply house more people. If your concern is massing and aesthetics, then that is achievable.

And yes, there should be 10-12 story buildings on our transit corridors. Why is that a bad thing?[/quote]

Look at Hill East. They have no historic preservation requirements and you get a hodge lodge of pop ups and post modern bullsht architecture mixed in with lovely old row homes. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.[/quote]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just because YOU think it is a hodgepodge doesn't make that a universal perspective. Should all building look the same? Who gets to decide? [/quote]

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