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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Mayor Muriel Marion Barry Bowser, big developers’ best friend and fixer[/b].[/quote]owse Again with this. I don't like Bowser at all but please explain in what manner rent controlled units are being threatened by developers or any Bowser policies? Maybe you can offer a citation? Or even a theory? Even a conspiracy theory at this point would be better than the arguments posited in this thread.[/quote] Have you ever had a problem with a developer? Just try to get the city to help you. It is impossible. [/quote] DCRA has long been terrible at taking enforcement action against any property owners so your complaint doesn't really prove anything. And unsurprisingly no one chimed in to try to explain this grand pro-developer anti rent controlled conspiracy the Mayor is somehow engineering.[/quote] It seems like a ridiculous question. Bowser is profoundly pro-developer. Do you even live in DC?[/quote] Yes I do. And I happen to know quite a bit about how zoning works in DC and how developments that require approval wind their way through the system. How is Bowser "profoundly pro-developer" Her proposed changes to the Comp Plan are actually pretty modest given the housing and global warming crises we are facing. And she doesn't control the Zoning Commision, the BZA or the Courts which is where all relevant decisions are actually made. I get that her plan to build homeless shelters across the city was terribly conceived and wasteful and clearly benefitted people connected to her and she deserves criticism for that but that plan had nothing whatsoever to do with the boom in housing we are seeing in some neighborhoods. FWIW I don't like Bowser and wish the city were adding more housing than it is. I'll check back for a substantive response.[/quote] How is it a crisis if there is tons of affordable housing in VA and Md with easy city access? I have zero issue with the mayor putting in programs to help current residents (like homestead tax exemption) hang on to their housing, or convert garages to single units and other creative means like that. Not sure why whole new dense apartments need to be shoe horned into neighborhood that could not remotely be described as transitional. But I'll bite ifshe builds one next door or across the street on her block, tho I doubt her neighbors would quite understand. [/quote]
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