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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you add the height "transferred" from the commercial lot that GDS will build the school on to the mixed-use, and add the height of the new school building on the commercial lot, is it the same or less than matter of right for the two lots? I think not.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, their strategy seems to be to mislead someone who doesn't know the zoning code or who isn't reading closely.
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You mean the Zoning Commission? Perhaps because all the ladies on the commission are distracted by GDS's crack team of Casanovas. Because that's who they have to mislead.

The zoning map in the submission clearly shows how they want to transfer density that could be built tomorrow, from the Safeway site and GDS's existing school, to the parcel across Wisconsin, away from some houses. Yes, that does mean a taller building height. But that height was good enough for Tenley Hill!

I've been through another Planned Unit Development process. They're part of the zoning code. They allow for this kind of transfer. If it were illegal, GDS would not be proposing it.

I guess the test will be at the Zoning Commission. [/quote][/quote]

Correcting my 2:57 post: The high school and proposed lower school buildings have over 42,000 more square feet of non-residential development than would be allowed on those lots with a PUD.  This is more than 16% more than would be allowed with a PUD on that school parcel.

If you consider the residential square footage that is not being used on the school site (about 30,000 square feet, considering that the project is already over 42,000 square feet larger than allowed for a non-residential PUD), and compare that with the excess density that they are requesting for the mixed use site, nearly 155,000 square feet, it is clear that the story they tell in their application doesn’t hold water.

The mixed use site will have well over twice the density (and a substantially more height) than is allowed with a PUD on that site without changing the zoning.  The maximum square footage for a PUD in the existing zone is three times the land area.  The proposal is for a building with a square footage that is 6.77 times the land area, i.e., well over twice the amount that would be allowed with a PUD.

The request is certainly more than what is allowed for a PUD without changing the zoning, and certainly more intense development than a matter of right project:  replacing the GDS high school and Safeway and WMATA sites with fewer than 24 single-family semi-detached houses and a 50-foot tall mixed use building replacing Safeway along with a mixed use building on Wisconsin Avenue that is less than half the size that GDS is proposing.

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No, no, we get it. You read a website and stayed at a Holiday Inn last night. You're smarter than the zoning commission, the lawyers and the Virgin Mary.

You've found the real rules, and you'd share them with us, but only you can scry them using a crystal inside a top hat. [/quote]

Smarter than Mr. Payola, the crony consultants and the Team of Aces?  No way.[/quote]

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