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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not opposing development. Opposing these 7 to 14 story buildings being proposed for the thoroughfares. If you cannot see how changing the verticality of a corridor changes its character, well then you will never be able to see where I am coming from even if you don't agree.

Bottom line, [b]I'd rather not have my house be in the shade of a 13 story building on Wisconsin Ave for half of the day[/b].[/quote]

That's a totally understandable personal preference, but it's not a good basis for public policy.[/quote]

Ummm...neither is so that our Politicos can make money. The science behind densification is a myth. Look at San Francisco. The science behind open skylines, trees and being able to see the blue sky is far more concrete.

Have you ever walked down a NYC street? Did you know that in good weather the more crowded side is the side in the sun. Because people are drawn to light. Even in NYC, people fight for air rights and sun rights.[/quote]

Nobody is turning Cleveland Park into Manhattan.

I don't know what you mean by "the science behind densification," but it's pretty basic that there needs to be housing in cities, and that single-family-detached houses with yards in transit-served areas limit the amount of housing available in transit-served areas.[/quote]

What are you basing your statement on? It is pretty clear to who? Investors? Developers?

"Although urban design theory is unscientific, Marshall wrote, it is not because the ideas are based on nonsense—many of the classic urban thinkers used observations and small pilot studies to describe how cities work. Jane Jacobs, for example, proposed that a city needs four ingredients to be exuberant: mixed uses, short blocks, buildings that vary in age and condition, and a dense concentration of people. "At the core of this book is a four-part hypothesis that is demanding to be tested," Marshall says. "But when I went to look to see if it had been tested, there was virtually nothing." The problem with urban design, he adds, is that its theories are untested, yet accepted as fact." -Stephen Marshall of University College London

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