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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keep the library there but build 10 or 12 floors of flats, mixture of upscale and affordable.  A win-win.[/quote]

this. But of course CP will argue its about character, never mind that most of Conn Avenue has apartment buidlings. They easily could have added at least 4 stories or housing but then a lot of it would have been affordable and no way are the limo liberals in CP allowing that to happen.[/quote]

You might be surprised that the second highest number of rent controlled units in the entire city are in Ward 3, and many of them are in or near Cleveland Park, along Connecticut and Wisconsin Avenues.  The older apartment buildings definitely provide a lot of more affordable units.   The irony is that the GGW/Smart Growth crowd wants to upzone the avenues further for downtown height and density.  This would mean that these affordable buildings and rent controlled units would be replaced by upscale condos and flats, with relatively little 'inclusive zoning' units (which by the way are NOT the same thing as affordable or RC units) to compensate.
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Rent control is the one of the most ineffiecnt ways to deliver truly affordable housing to people who need it.  Rent control apartments are not means tested which means someone can make 100k and have a rent controlled apt for decades. So that is a very weak arguement.  True affordable housing is means tested for tenants and has been created through some kind of subsidy like tax credits or housing production trust fund.  That is what Cleveland Park and most of Ward 3 has NONE of.   The site could have had at least 20 truly affordable housing units.  But keep on trying to convince everyone that Ward 3 has their fair share of affordable housing. [/quote]

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