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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are all of those “amenities” looking now? The amenities that Washingtonians seem to value now are quieter streets, uncrowded sidewalks to maintain social distance, leafy green areas for needed sanity, and an appreciation of seeing light and blue sky.[/quote]

Basing urban design on a once-in-a-century occurrence doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Or a financially viable one, either.

Meanwhile the streets are quieter because there's less driving, and there'd be plenty of room for walking if the DC government followed the lead of many other cities around the world by reassigning some of the empty road space to people out walking.[/quote]

^^^But, if this has a permanent effect on people's preferences, such that people who previously wanted to live in urban places in walking distance of stuff will henceforth want to live in spread-out areas where you have to drive, then that's good news for you, because the developers will stop building the kind of buildings you don't like. And rents/prices for living in the kind of buildings you don't like will also decrease, making it more affordable to live there.[/quote]

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