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There are over 1500 housing units under construction right now 1 to 2 blocks south of that site.  Yet you say that Tenleytown needs more, more, more.

By the way, how many of the units at City Ridge and at 4000 Wisconsin will be truly affordable?  Yeah.  But that is the Smart Growth pretext for allowing laissez faire development in DC.[/quote]

the housing under development is all matter of right. next time, support laws that force developers to make more affordable units available rather than just flexing into 'no new development' mode.[/quote]

Not really true.  City Ridge needed a very crucial public space permit to create the new truck ramp and parking access from Wisconsin Ave.  DDOT’s stated policy is to disfavor additional access points on major arterials like Wisconsin, and indeed the new access will make an already congested part of the Avenue significantly worse.  This was a critical leverage point for the DC government, but the mayor, DDOT and the Office of Planning chose not to demand more affordable housing units as a condition for granting this very valuable access.  Speaking of “flexing”, is it any wonder that they all bent over to the developers’ wishes, particularly considering that the developer had boasted at public meetings of his downtown connections?!  What’s very clear is that affordable housing isn’t really that much of a policy priority for the Bowser administration, but they use it as a pretext for making the regulatory changes that their developer friends want.[/quote]

You posted this exact thing already in this thread.[/quote]

In reply to [b]Ward[/b] 3 Vision or some such deflecting again with the same disingenuous talking point.[/quote]

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