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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Small footprints/acreage = underground parking, creative fields/playgrounds[/quote]

My architect family members say that underground parking costs out at $20K per spot.[/quote]

DCPS officially is not building parking anymore.  In Ward 3, Mary Cheh got DCPS to put in off street parking st Janney and Murch.  Now John Eaton is finally getting a renovation (the last in line in Ward 3),and there will be no parking.  The HSA actually begs parents to give their visitor parking placards to school staff, but then school neighbors can’t find parking themselves.  So this short term fix will end.  Cheh’s answer to Eaton staff was to provide information about Metro.[/quote]

It is not smart to make blanket statement like that. That is what gets politicians in trouble. You say, "we aren't doing X anymore, every again, no way" and then an architect and engineer whisper in your ear, "excuse me, in order to accomplish this project and comply with currents laws and zoning requirements, we have to do X."

If Eaton doubles the square footage of the building, zoning laws will require them to have parking too.[/quote]

Parking is not in the Eaton plan.[/quote]

Until they get sued for mot meeting zoning requirements. [/quote]

[b]DCPS is not ordinary subject to zoning[/b].  And no court is going to require reexcavation of the playground once the project is well underway.[/quote]

Where do you see anywhere that DCPS properties aren't subject to zoning requirements?

Would generally agree that a court wouldn't stop a project already under construction, but suing against zoning approvals has become the go-to anti-development tool in DC.[/quote]

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