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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Control Board is not going to allow this project.  Let’s talk again in 2028.  [/quote]

If the GOP sweeps the US elections, forget any notion that the next iteration will be the Clinton era control board.  Think of it more like a victorious power’s Kontrollkommission.  The idiots in the Wilson Building should take note.[/quote]

Maybe everyone here should take a long hard look at the Project 2025 in the housing and transportation sections and then reconsider their democratic party membership.

Single family only zoning? Check
Bike lanes? F them, Check
EV's? Screw that, gas guzzler only
Public transport? Haha - the rule of the ICE automobile is back.
Housing vouchers?  You gotta be kidding me!

All you "got mine" jerks that came to upper NW in the 70's and 80's and want to see it remain that way forever have completely done a 180 over the bra burning movements from your youthful years.[/quote]

Awkward question. What’s wrong with single family zoning?  Whats wrong with family friendly neighborhoods?[/quote]

The main argument against R1 zoning, is that single family homes are the only things permitted. Row homes, corner stores, accessory dwellings, etc... are all prohibited. It leads to a pretty spread-out area that essentially mandates heavy car usage and parking. This has downstream impacts like "Connecticut Avenue needs parking 24/7" and "Let's use Rock Creek Park as a commuter route" that are less than ideal for a well-functioning city. [/quote]

This is an anachronistic argument.  Post Covid we need more downtown residential density, not uptown.  [/quote]

That doesn’t track at all. There are many UMC families that cannot afford to buy a SFH in NW DC but would love to stay in DC (including traveling downtown for work, entertainment and work). If I could buy a 2-3 bedroom duplex or triplex or ADU in NW DC I would absolutely do it. And developments like McLean Gardens show how some density can fit very nicely with open space.

What seems anachronistic now is the idea that all economic development needs to be concentrated in one downtown. [/quote]

It’s a big city.  Why do you HAVE to be in NW?[/quote]

Why do YOU have to have your SFH in NW? But the answer is - proximity to schools, parks, metro, stores, services. [/quote]

The schools in NW are already way overcrowded.  What is the greater greater density solution for that?[/quote]

The normal solution would be to redraw the boundaries so every middle school kid isn't inbound for Deal and then J-R.[/quote]p

So white upzoners want to be able to move into neighborhoods with already-good schools and then completely wall off those schools to the rest of the city? That just screams equity. The masks are starting to fall off here.[/quote]

Too lazy to gentrify[/quote]

Too lazy to embrace the free market! If we loosen zoning laws, there will be both more duplexes in NW *and* still SFH in W7 and W8. Funny how that works. But why am I not surprised that the penchant to make any stupid argument (upzoning is racist!) applies as much to housing as to transit.

Look, we all know who you are - the crankiest cranks on the listserv. We roll our eyes. [/quote][/quote]

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