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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all 20+ pages of this thread, but I live very close (less than a minute walk) to the planned affordable housing sites. Many of my neighbors, including myself, would welcome affordable housing in the neighborhood. I WANT my kids, who go to Lafayette, to be exposed to more socioeconomic diversity (and if that comes with racial diversity, all the better too). But the problem is that we've seen no plans from the city about how to deal with a sudden population influx. Most importantly, Lafayette is already overcrowded - where the heck are they going to put all the extra kids? If the project is going to move forward without school re-zoning, then part of the new community center should actually be space for PK/K and then have the current Lafayette site be grades 1-5 to make room for the influx of kids. Sort of like the Peabody/Watkins schools.

Additional concerns would include making the E4 bus more frequent (presumably many in the new housing would commute via Friendship Heights metro to work) and making some kind of deal about parking/cars with the apartment residents so that we don't have traffic congestion as people look for parking on surrounding streets.

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Anyone who brings up school overcrowding -- which already is happening and will only get worse -- is immediately branded as a NIMBY and disregarded. You'll notice that all plans for CCDC specifically say that no consideration be given to what will happen to the schools. It's simply not important to the people who are pushing for this, either because they don't have kids, don't live in the neighborhood (hi GGW!), send their kids to privates and think everyone who lives in CCDC can just do the same, or a combination of the above.[/quote]

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