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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't know enough to say who is most deeply concerned about overdevelopment, but the concern is broad.  Overdevelopment hurts the entire Janney/Deal/Wilson area and the traffic impacts almost as wide an area.

There is room for more development on Wisconsin Ave. right above the Tenley station with lots of single story property if the market supports development.  I do hope, though, that the city can find a way to make developers pay for neighborhood improvements to support the additional density.  Anyone know how the city deals with of right development which adds density?[/quote]

The people who would live in these buildings would probably not be car owners, so the traffic concerns are unwarranted, particularly for a street that is already begrimed with traffic. Suburban traffic, which will only get worse because we are pushing people to live further out with cars rather than closer in without cars.[/quote]

Ha!  A new building opened a block away, on Wisconsin Ave.  The developer claimed that all the Millenials don't drive, take Uber, transit, bikeshare, etc, and as a result provided few off-street parking spaces for the project.  Guess what?    It turns out that millenials do drive and do park their cars.  On the already overcrowed side streets.  Many of those cars don't even have DC plates but they got residential stickers anyway.  So, yes, traffic concerns with added density are warranted.[/quote]

And why is your car and my cars (we've got two of then, as does every two-adult household on our Tenleytown block) differ from a car of an apartment resident?  Just because we got here first seems a little silly. Adobe the corner from me is a family with four cars. Yes, four cars.  Two adults and kids in high school and college (and you can't blame GDS for those cars because those kids went elsewhere).  Time to chill out, and figure this is life in the big city![/quote]

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