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This isn’t about affordable housing, folks.  That is just a pretext for the mayor to increase allowable height and density in neighborhoods like Chevy Chase and Cleveland Park, so that her crony developers can reap huge profits by building 13 story luxury condo buildings.  The proponents claim that a minuscule percentage of “inclusive zoning” units (which are pegged at fairly high income levels) in such upscale projects will make housing affordable.  That’s bunk - it’s trickle down theory and the public can see through the B.S.[/quote]

Let's talk about the profit that developers made while building neighborhoods like Chevy Chase and Cleveland Park - Chevy Chase Land Company and Cleveland Park Land Company, respectively. If they hadn't developed, at a tidy profit, you wouldn't be living there.
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I think that people value these neighborhoods for the leafy quiet streets, the fact that folks often know their neighbors, and that you can see the sky.  Put up a lot of 10-14 story buildings across the neighborhoods and they lose much of the character that makes them special.  There’s still plenty of vacant or nearly vacant (ie parking lots) large parcels in the city, to add thousands of housing units.  Each of the aforementioned neighborhoods already has a number of apartment buildings on the avenues, so why is it necessary to build over single family streets and pedestrian scale historic districts ?[/quote]

What does that have to do with developer profits? Aren't you angry that the developers ruined those perfectly nice areas 120 years ago by subdividing and building unnecessary housing? People who lived there valued those areas! And then along came the developers and put up a lot of houses, and the areas totally lost the character that made them special. Even worse, those same developers built public transportation to serve those areas![/quote]

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