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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of undeveloped parcels along Rhode Island Avenue...There's plenty more density to be added without increasing the height limit.

One of the pressures to increase development in less developed areas of the city is the height limit.  There's lots more growth to be added without turning into Rockville or Arlington.

Now, that said, I'm not actually against raising the height limit.  But to say there's no more space left is to pretend that NW is the only sector of the city.[/quote]

There have been several development in the RI Avenue area recently.  A big one is getting underway right by the Met Branch Trail.   Once Navy Yard and NoMa are built out, RI Avenue development will accelerate.

People keep implicitly assuming that the time to raise the height limit is AFTER there are no more suitable parcels for development. That does not make sense. If a parcel can be redeveloped now at say, 14 stories, and a height limit change would allow 20 stories, and you build it at 14 stories in 2020, and DC gets to build out in 2030, the 14 story building won't magically grow to 20 stories.  You will have a new 14 story building there.  Tearing it down and building over again to get 6 more stories will not be economical.   You need to reexamine (and possibly change) the height limit when build out is in sight, not AFTER build out takes place.  [/quote]

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