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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Actually, there are ZERO affordable units for rent in Colonial Village, District of Columbia. — B[i]owser's 100% single family neighborhood has no low-income apartments — including along 16th St NW. [/i]

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The map shows her little swath at the top of the drawing will not be affected by her plan [/snip]

… Colonial Village/North Portal Estates/Shepherd Park are all zoned for the same schools (Shepherd/Deal/Wilson), have the same neighborhood associations, etc., and are really all considered part of "greater" Shepherd Park. The border is Georgia Ave. to the east, which already has zoning laws which permit multi-unit housing. Currently, it's lined with a bunch of (mostly shabby) apt. buildings.  [snip]

There will also be affordable housing in the Walter Reed development, just to the south of the neighborhood, once it gets underway.

There were plans for a mixed use building on the corner of Georgia/Alaska/Kalmia  which was to be a midrise apt. building with a Harris Teeter- [/snip].[/quote]

1st PP here.  I appreciate what you're saying, SP poster, but the thing is, you're not actually describing Bowser's immediate environs.  She's totally insulated from her own proposal to build hundreds of units for low-income people.

The fact that there are apartment buildings 1.5 - 2 miles away on Georgia is irrelevant.  Personally,  I wasn't affected at my 20015 address by the units proposed for the MPD station on Idaho Ave NW.  Easy for me to say that's a great place to house the homeless in a "rich" neighborhood — I won't know the difference in my day-to-day life.

When upper 16th St NW gets a few hundred rental units built on some of those huge SFH lots between, say, Primrose and Myrtle (along transit! Yay!) …. then let's talk.  No reason they can't tear down 2-3 of those homes and up-zone those parcels to multi-unit, right?   Let's see Muriel put some skin in the game along the Gold Coast.

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