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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, ^ right.

Basically, I'm saying that if DC has this magic wand to tell developers what to do. then tell them what to do. We don't have to change the ONLY unique features of our city for them. There's plenty of land yet to be developed, and the Mayor and Council can easily pass laws to incentivize mixed income housing within current height requirements. What exactly is magical about seven stories??

:roll: [/quote]

They have the right to tell them what to do when applying for a PUD or other project that goes before the zoning commission, They don't have the right to force affordable units on a matter of right projects.

Where is all this "plenty of land yet to be developed?"[/quote]

Take a walk around. Stuff gets razed and rebuilt all the time. Stuff is going up right now in tenleytown. Anacostia is pretty much grazing land. The wharf just happened. There is tons of development. [/quote]

The stuff going up in tenleytown is redevelopment of exiting buildings and infil of a suburban style office campus. Anacostia a grazing land? I take it you have never been there. It is a developed historic district with new development coming around the edges, unless you are referring to the federally owned Poplar Point, which is very complicated to do a land transfer unless you happen to have an extra place for a helipad for the Park Service.[/quote]

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