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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any other mixed use projects for DCPL?[/quote]

Yup the new West End Library is part of a mixed use project and it is fantastic - nice library and additional housing and the tax revenues that come with it.  Win Win for the city and neighborhood.[/quote]

Zoning and density are different downtown and in the West End than in Cleveland Park (an historic district) and in Tenleytown.  That may not matter to the developer profit-maximimizer mouthpiece known as Greater Greater Washington, but it matters to District residents.

BTW, some of the fantastic, win-win West End housing is right above the new fire station, but those were the statutorily-required 'affordable' units.[/quote]

[b]Actually lots of DC residents disagree with you which is evidenced by where they have chosen to live, and this includes Ward 3 residents.
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In any case most of Connecticut Avenue is zoned for 10 story buildings which I believe is the same height the West End is zoned for.

BTW I assume you live in a teepee on the land you inherited from your Native American ancestors?[/quote]

That's fantastic, people can choose where they want to live.  If they want to live in a glass box in a dense area, go for it.  Others like low-rise Palisades, Cleveland Park or Chevy Chase DC.  That diversity of neighborhoods and housing types is a good thing.  Not everything has to be turned into Greater Greater Generica.

Connecticut Avenue actually has varied zoning heights, reflecting the Newlands plan for how the corridor developed.  There are concentrations of denser apartment buildings, often set back on lawns, interspersed with low density strips including Cleveland Park, the area where Politics and Prose it and then Chevy Chase DC.  That's an important element of the streetscape design.  Van Ness was originally part of this pattern, but it got changed, and we see how that turned out.[/quote]

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