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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it’s really what the headline says. It’s privatization, it’s not enforceable. There was minimum traffic, now there’ll be a lot more even just out of spite or because 3,000 plus eyeballs were on it.

The lawsuits this neighborhood has been bringing and the rules they’ve been writing for themselves are despicable. It’s really abhorrent to the point that I don’t even begrudge the low flying planes, and 70+dbs every 90 seconds. The streets are holding on to the last vestiges their historical reputation while being victims of their own legend — park your millions in Woodland, Woodley, Mass Ave Heights

The overbuilding, the flight path, the sewage problem, the run off, the no sidewalks… more is the pity [/quote]

The worst part is that it still won't be self for children to walk independently because it still won't have sidewalks and it still will have at least a couple of landscaping or construction trucks on any given day.[/quote]

There should be a rule that if a street does not have sidewalks, and is opposed to them, then any claims that something is needed for safety should be rejected out of hand.[/quote]

The issue with sidewalks is that there are some in flexible bureaucrats in the DC government to take a very restricted view of what is required for a sidewalk.  They insist for example that new sidewalks should be 7 or 8 feet wide to allow 2 wheelchairs to pass easily. While this may make sense on K Street it is ridiculous on a side street in Forest Hills or Palisades.  There three or 4th foot sidewalks makes sense.  Environmental considerations such as preserving the tree canopy and permeable space are also important.[/quote]

A wheelchair is not 4' wide.  I don't believe you are being fully truthfull.[/quote]

Cars aren't 10' wide, yet somehow DC considers the minimum safe width for a road to be 20'. [/quote]

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