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"Blight in the neighborhood"?  Please.  Perhaps Greedy Developer $chool and its developer partners are not willing or able to live within the zoning regs and the comprehensive plan, insisting instead on a PUD that busts both and is based on some hypothetical transfer of density from its campus parcel, which they never plan to use for anything other than a school.  (This hypothetical density transfer is the key that explains why the Team of Aces and developer partners in the shadows are using the school as the front purchaser for the Wisconsin property.  Once all zoning approvals are obtained, the school is free to sell out to them because the necessity of having a single property owner with a unified development scheme goes away.)

If the GD$ front group can't develop them under current zoning and the comprehensive plan, they should sell the Wisconsin Ave parcels. [b] Some other developer will be perfectly happy to build as a matter of right under existing zoning. [/b] GD$ is trying to stuff a two-fer down the neighborhood's throat:  a school that is more than 100% bigger AND a development that violates existing zoning in multiple ways.  And don't forget that if GD$ gets the PUD it wants, then that will become the base line and precedent for other projects to demand PUDs and special exceptions and soon zoning and the comprehensive plan are history in Tenleytown.[/quote]

On what do you base this statement? None of the Safeway proposals were Matter of Right and the parcels fronting Wisconsin Avenue are much more challenging.[/quote]

How are they more challenging?  They face a major arterial, with all of the retail front exposure that brings.  These parcels are far more valuable from a retail standpoint than frontage on a side street.  It's just a case of GDS, greedy developer syndrome.[/quote]

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