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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a number of historic districts that n Washington DC and most residents seem quite happy with them.[/quote]

I wouldn’t say most residents are happy with them vs most residents tolerate them.

On the one hand, nobody moves into Georgetown planning to tear down an 18th century home and replace with a modern home.

However, CC has absolutely no common style and there are many homes built after 1980.

This is one person’s mission to impose their aesthetic in the population.  Again, it has no popular support.[/quote]

The area proposed has very few houses built after 1980 - the ones I can think of were duplexes that came after single family older homes were torn down.[/quote]

There was at least one teardown/rebuild recently on Livingston.  Another one is going on right now on Military rd.  If you go down a few of the side streets between reno and conn ave, you can see some houses that are way more modern than others which were also teardowns.  These projects would have have been sufficiently difficult to execute that they may not have happened if the area had the historical district designation on it previously.[/quote]

So, I don’t care about tear downs…if someone wants to buy my house and tear it down, that’s their choice.

But again…those houses are already torn down and rebuilt which just further weakens the historic value of the neighborhood.

However there are many townhouse style homes on 39th, legation and elsewhere that are at best from the 1970s and more likely 1980s+.  Maybe there was a structure before those were built…who gives a s**t.[/quote]

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