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[quote=Anonymous]R2 is 40 ft and C2B is 50 ft as of right

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nice try. The project is too dense and too massive and too intense in its proposed usage. It is a unified whole and must stand or fall on that basis.  GDS doesn't get to decide that---the city, with input from the community-- does. From start to finish it is a greedy development scheme with all sorts of undisclosed interests swirling around the development team and the school's Board.  They MUST keep their school on the Safeway  site and their tiny little existing campus. They don't want their school fronting along Wisconsin Avenue. They have bit off way, way more than they can chew on behalf of all their development friends and family.[/quote]

Why isn't current zoning "input from the community" rather than ad hoc decisions?

The zoning for where the school is now is R-2, which the school could build to a height of 60 feet by right.  The Safeway lot is C-2-A, which could be built to 50 feet.  The Wisconsin lot is C-2-B, which could be build to 60 feet.  What GDS was basically proposing was to shift its rights to build on those lots per zoning rules towards Wisconsin Avenue, so that there would be lower height on the SFH end of the school and more along the urban corridor.  Sure - give community input.  But recognize that if those plans get rejected someone, whether GDS or a subsequent purchaser, may just exercise its rights and build up to the lot limits on each of the parcels, which is likely to be worse for everyone.[/quote][/quote]

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