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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If you all want more affordable housing, then demand that another floor or two be added to pay for it.[/b] You can only squeeze the balloon so much.

Yet, for all of the people bitching about the social justice, or lack there of, let's see if you embrace a homeless shelter or treatment clinic in the neighborhood.

The so-called progressive liberals in upper NW are all fine and mighty except when it comes to their neighborhood. Practice what you preach or shut the fuck up.

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There's an element of the PUD application that requires that the applicant provide distinct community benefits and amenities to offset the additional height and density that GDS is ALREADY seeking in excess of what the zoning code provides for the parcel as a matter of right.  Adding some affordable housing that is incremental to the bare statutory requirement would be one such benefit (without, of course, yet an ADDITIONAL increase in height beyond what GDS is already seeking in excess of zoning; otherwise it becomes just an upward ratchet for the developer).  So far as a compensating "amenity" the school has offered "GDS Spanish Steps" for the community to gaze at the view of GDS beyond.    :lol:   It's also worth noting that what GDS touts as the amenity package is at most a set of aesthetic tweaks that enable the school and its developer partners to enhance the project's marketability.  In that sense, the "benefit" is really for the development project itself rather than for the community.[/quote]

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