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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Council Member Mary Cheh (Ward 3) added a late amendment to the Comprehensive Plan rewrite that the DC Council recently passed.  The amendment raises the Future Land Use Map designation for the SW corner of Wisconsin & Albemarle to "medium density", which enables up-zoning to permit a 9 or 10 story building.  The plan is to add dense multifamily housing, including some affordable housing units, on top of the Tenleytown library, with entrance access to Albemarle Street behind the library, over a small portion of the east side of the Janney playground.  When the library was built, its structure was reinforced for possible additional stories to be added later.  If they build a number of the new units for families, it would be a huge bonus to have Janney so close.[/quote]

[b]Medium density does not get you to a 9 or 10 story building (only 65 feet) [/b]and there is no plan or proposal to build anything at the moment so you have no idea where any entrance would be or what the mix of housing units would be.

Also this change to the Future Land Use Map also applied to the adjacent St Ann's school and large surface parking lot which are much more likely to see re-development than the Tenley Library which is pretty small though if you combined them you could really do something creative.

It is a poorly designed library so I would not be heartbroken if the entire thing were replaced.[/quote]

This is incorrect.  You must be thinking of "moderate" density which can result in a 65' building, not "medium" density which Cheh pushed through.  Under two of the possible zones available under the medium density classification, MU-8 allows a building height of 90' (70' plus a habitable top "penthouse" floor of 20'), or a total of 8 stories MU-10 allows building height of 110' (90' plus a 20' penthouse).  If a market-rate building is constructed with additional inclusive zoning (IZ) units, height can be up to 110' feet (90' plus a 20' penthouse floor).  A building of 10-11 stories would be pretty tall in Tenleytown and surely would cast a long shadow over the school playground.[/quote]

Fortunately, children are not solar-powered, so I don't think we even have to contemplate opposing needed housing because the building would cast a shadow on (part of) the school playground.[/quote]

10 or 11 story buildings are out of proportion to Tenleytown, especially next to the school.  What is "Tysons Mary" Cheh thinking?![/quote]

I don't care if they're "out of proportion," they're a good way to make it easier for more people to afford to live in the neighborhood.[/quote]

This seems like a talking point from the developer lobby, Ward 3-Trump-Manafort Vision.[/quote]

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