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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tenley has never been Georgetown -- but it is a nice place to live.  Zoning helps keep it that way.  Hipper restaurants, bars and retail could be great. BTW -- Connecticut Ave. used to be cool, too.  But it is looking vacant as well. Letting landowners determine density is the wrong approach.  [/quote]

There's nothing wrong with trying to stay a nice neighborhood in which to live.  Several decades ago, for example, Cleveland Park faced a choice whether to bulldoze much of Connecticut Ave. and become a restaurant and bar destination like Adams Morgan.  Instead, they put in an historic district and tried to maintain a mixture of restaurants, shops and a great movie theater through zoning.  Today, U Street may be a hipper destination, but the C.P. is highly valued for its green spaces, walkability and historic streets.  The great thing about Washington is the diversity of neighborhoods where people can choose what's important to them -- it's not necessary that Tenleytown or Cleveland Park or Chevy Chase DC be just like Friendship Heights, etc.[/quote]

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