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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh come on folks, there should be high density by metro stations. I’m not saying it will all go smoothly but I just don’t see the blanket argument increasing density on a busy road that also has busses and metro.[/quote]

So Capitol Hill should be replaced by tall, dense buildings like at the Navy Yard?  Capitol Hill has two Metro stations.[/quote]

Is tenleytown a historic district? [/quote]

Should Capitol Hill be a historic district? I say that designation should be removed in the blocks surrounding Capitol South and Eastern Market so it can be upzoned. Pennsylvania Avenue is a huge missed opportunity for density. Funny how no one clamors for it there.[/quote]

[b]There is a 5-story residential building at 7th and Penn already[/b], on the old Hine School property--it's the one with Trader Joe's on the ground floor. I would be totally fine with more mid-rise buildings like that right on Penn near the Eastern Market metro, for example replacing the single-story CVS with a building that had retail on the ground floor and condos or apartments above. It's not like the CVS--or the Tenleytown library--is a historic property, and there is a middle ground between 1-2 stories and 12-14 like Navy Yard. Wisconsin Ave is a main thoroughfare and a city-owned property there is the perfect place to build mixed-income housing. If you own a single family house on a side street nobody is going to make you tear it down and build a condo. [/quote]

Cool, that's one building. There are probably 10 such buildings within five or so blocks of the Tenleytown Metro -- with thousands more units about to come online at City Vista and the plot immediately north -- yet all you hear about is that there's no density in Ward 3. Meanwhile, Metro-adjacent land on Capitol Hill is forever unchangeable because of ridiculous historic preservation, forever ensuring that the land is inefficiently used. Yet I never hear GGW writers clamor for more density there.

The whole of Pennsylvania Avenue Ave SE needs to be upzoned, too, not just Wisconsin/Connecticut in Ward 3.[/quote]

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