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However, I must continue to repeat myself, you do not have a right to buy property anywhere you want to at the price you want to pay.[/quote]

And you don’t have a right over another person’s property. Up zoning just gives your neighbor a choice of SFH or more dense housing. If they want to build a triplex, that’s their right. [/quote]

Why are you so interested in destroying SFH neighborhoods??  If I buy a house in neighborhood of SFHs, that is what I want in a neighborhood.  No, I do not want to live in a neighborhood of SFHs, duplexes, triplexes, etc.   Otherwise, I live elsewhere.  And, in the DMV, I have options.   Guess who pays the taxes.  Those in the larger SFHs.  Note also that, while DC may be growing now, it has not always, and its growth rate is actually slowing.  DC still has not returned to its 1950 level when over 800K people lived in DC.  In 2000, DC was as low as 572K, at a time when the DMV was booming.  DC has plenty of space to build residential housing.  The only folks pushing upzoning are smaller developers, plus those who wish to change the character of other people's neighborhoods.[/quote]
It’s all projection. They claim that you should not be able to control others but at the same time they want to force everyone to live the way they want them to and they want to make every neighborhood the way they want it. They are trying to eliminate consumer choice. It’s a very egocentric and dictatorial perspective that they have. [/quote]

You can't actually believe your own nonsense can you? You know how foolish you look and this is just the last straw you've grasped at to be able to justify your insane, selfish views, right?

Because right now, you're saying the side that wants to give property owners the right to CHOOSE what to build on their property, that wants to give consumers the right to CHOOSE to live in multifamily, duplex, or rowhouse housing in more neighborhoods is the anti-choice side because they want to, what? Take away your right to tell other people what other people do with their property? Nobody is forcing you to do anything. If you don't want multifamily housing on your property, don't build it, it's that simple. The only thing we want to "force" you to do is accept that things change, neighborhoods need to evolve to serve growing and changing populations, and the world does not revolve around you, all concepts which adults already understand. Sorry for your arrested development, maybe with some effort and introspection someday you'll mature, start growing as a person, and catch up with the rest of us.   [/quote]

I think you are the one who may need help here.  DC has plenty of land where multifamily, duplexes, rowhouses, etc, can be built, WITHOUT harming SFH neighborhoods.  You simply want easy money.   Lets buy some land in a nice neighborhood and build a MF building, and make money.  Real hard.  Anyone can do that.  Go create new thriving areas of DC, which is happened at the Navy Yard and Wharf.  Latter 2 projects took some real creativity.

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