Reply to Mary Cheh has turned Cleveland Park/Cleveland Park North into her personal political asset

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Mary Cheh has turned Cleveland Park/Cleveland Park North into her personal political asset"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So who is spearheading the effort to "Save the Uptown" and the character of the block? I feel the same way about Tenleytown. No need for any more building up. Our low, commercial hubs have their own charm.[/quote]

They may have charm, but they are not economically viable, and certainly not on top of metro stations. Where else does it make sense to focus density, if not on top of metro station and bus corridors?[/quote]

You know DC is a tiny nutshell of a city with excellent interconnected bus and metro transit? We are not talking LA here. The only two areas that seem remote/underserved by public transit would be Spring Valley and Anacostia.  The rest of the city is accessible WHEREVEER you are.  Why density? Why not livable, walkable neighborhoods with the greenery and charm and low height that people love about DC? Spread your little money-making building projects around more evenly and leave the historic aspects of our city--that make our city our city and not generic anytown USA--alone.[/quote]

Why do you think livability and walkability are at odds with density? Density [i]increases[/i] walkability and livability. The metro station and bus lines aren't any further away if a parcel of land is developed into a five-story condo building instead of a single-family home. Density makes it viable for more businesses to put down roots in neighborhoods, which enables you to patronize a local neighborhood business instead of having to schlep over to another neighborhood.[/quote]

Ha!  Increased dense mixed-use "smart growth" development seems to result in more investor-driven projects seeking national chains and other well-capitalized corporate businesses.  So we keep getting more CVS stores, bank branches, SweetGreens and Chipotles.  Not to knock them, but the locally-owned businesses are no longer seen as desirable tenants as developers want their projects to be investment-worthy.  So the result is fewer locally-owned businesses can put down roots -- or even stay --  in neighborhoods.  Case in point is Cleveland Park where the landlord of Firehook, which had been in space for years, refused to renew Firehook's lease because it is marketing the property in anticipation of new uphoning and potentially massive redevelopment.   Thanks, Cheh.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics