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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowser’s head of the office of planning, Andrew Trueblood, write his graduate thesis on eliminating the DC height limitation in order to construct tall buildings throughout the city.  Now he’s got the ability to translate his callow notions into public policy with lasting impacts.  Trueblood is the Stephen Miller of city planning.[/quote]

Nice fear mongering.

And not what he said:

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/housing-complex/blog/13122780/mit-thesis-on-height-limits-backs-strategic-boosting

At all.

What he actually proposed is pretty modest and would also reduce the pressure for developments in neighborhoods further from downtown by allowing more development downtown, which in case you were not aware is pretty close to being completely built out at this point.

In any case Congress still controls DC's height limit after the DC Council bizarrely decided against asking for that decision to be returned to DC residents though in all of DC outside of Pennsylvania Avenue the zoning does not even allow any buildings as tall as the Federal Height limit allows.

Which is too bad because dense neighborhoods happen to have a number of advantages, especially environmental ones, but obviously some DC residents just want to be able to drive and park unimpeded.[/quote]

DC is already one of the most densely populated places in America. We have neighborhoods that are more crowded than parts of New York City. [/quote]

Parts of NYC are pretty low density. Jamaica Estates (where POTUS grew up) parts of Staten Island, etc.

So that's not a really meaningful statement. [/quote]

Sure, it is. There are places in DC with 70,000 people per square mile. That's more than most of Queens, the Bronx, parts of Brooklyn, even parts of Manhattan. [/quote]

The average population density of DC is 11,000 per sq mile. and because of retrocession DC has a a particularly small central city compared to places like Chicago, Philly, etc. Despite that DC has about the same density as Chicago and Philly.   NYC of course has about 2 and a half times the density, despite its many low density areas.  [/quote]

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