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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People need to really relax about how a big a deal this is.

"Alexandria’s effort was less ambitious — at its most expansive, it allows for four-unit buildings rather than six-unit buildings — and it will affect fewer neighborhoods because much of the city is already zoned to include townhouses and tall apartment towers."
"The new policy is expected to lead to the redevelopment of about 66 properties and add 150 to 178 units over the next decade, according to estimates from Alexandria city planners."
"One- and two-unit buildings will be required to have at least one off-street parking spot and three- and four-unit buildings will be required to have at least two spots."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/29/alexandria-single-family-zoning-housing-vote/
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The parking requirements go away within a 1/2 mile on transit, which is not just metro. That’s where a lot of properties will be developed.

Also, again, this is phase 1. Phase two will allow multi family housing in former SFZ to be built on a larger scale than the SFHs. [/quote]

Wait a second- the builders can have fewer spaces but the street parking will still be zoned, right? Please God tell me Council just didn't invite all of Maryland to drive to Rosemont, park, and hop on the metro.[/quote]

I live in Rosemont. People already do that. Parking enforcement is nonexistent. Construction companies even store their equipment and trucks on Russell and Commonwealth overnight and weekends. The city doesn’t care. [/quote]

The city parking unit is severely understaffed and was previously also used for crosswalk guards. I believe TES is working to remediate this issue. [/quote]

That may be true but I’ve lived in Rosemont 20 years. They have never enforced. [/quote]

Outside of the center of Old Town, they only enforce if you put in a 311.  Put one in every day (early), they will come out and mark. If only takes a minute to put it in. [/quote]

Lets get together Rosemont and Del Ray and yell for some enforcement - especially Friday and Saturday nights (at least on the Del Ray end). The enforcement will pay for itself just ticketing the cars that are parked too close to stop signs at the ends of every block and it would also make the sight lines much safer for pedestrians and encourage better future behavior.[/quote]

the city literally DOES NOT CARE. In Rosemont we repeatedly have issues with construction companies who park their gigantic trucks and trailers overnight and all weekend, often too close to the curb, and preventing any safe line of vision for other cars at intersections. These are huge trucks, they go way over the white parking lines. I've seen them park there at the end of the day, driver gets out and gets into another coworkers car, and leave. A bunch of us couldn't seem to figure out where they were coming from (some thought it was coming from the green house being constructed by Brooks), but someone realized they were from that on going telecom project from all over the city where they are digging up parts of the road to lay new cables. Right now there is a huge trailer park with orange round wires sticking out of it, completely detached from any vehicles. This has been going on for 2 months.

The city doesn't care.[/quote]

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