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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is a shame is that at a time that the city is crying for more housing and more options to address homelessness, GDS has removed at least three floors from the residential side of the project. What a smart city leader should be doing is saying put those 3 floors back and add three more and we will have a great location for a mixed income residential development that is in a transit rich area with good schools.

Instead, what we are getting is the same old NIMBY, lop off another floor and make the development as uninteresting as possible and add as little true amenity to the area and city as possible.

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Perhaps we've missed something, so kindly point out the parts of GDS' PUD application that proposed housing for the homeless.  Instead, various parties asked GDS to provide more "affordable" housing as a PUD "amenity" and GDS' response was that they would provide only the statutory required minimum.  Rather than a mixed income development, the PUD's market focus has always been upscale housing.

As for area public schools, they may be good but all (Janney, Deal and Wilson) are seriously overcrowded now, even after each has been expanded (some more than once).  Building 10 or 12 story developments in Tenleytown without more school capacity is a disservice to current and future students -- that is, unless GDS proposes to educate them.

The fact that the D.C. Office of Planning, which in recent years has been a reflexive cheerleader for more development and density, opposed GDS' request for a map amendment to effectively upzone the PUD parcel is quite significant and speaks volumes about the problems with plan that the school pushed for too long.[/quote]

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