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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, I don't think any of this shit matters.  Mary Rowse unilaterally filed her 20 year old Historic District designation request this week.  Now everyone in this area will be doomed to kneeling at her altar and begging to be able to do light gray paint rather than white.[/quote]

Historic preservation doesn't cover paint color.[/quote]

Wood siding with stucco then.  Jesus.  Same thing.  Mary and crew gonna give everyone a hard time just because they can and they enjoy exercising power over others.[/quote]

They tried to create a historic district 15 years ago and the community voted it down by a 4-to-1 margin.

Frumin is against and let’s hope the process at least is the same as last time as I think the community will again vote it down by a similarly wide margin.[/quote]
Didn’t realize Chairman Frumin had power over historic designations.[/quote]

He doesn’t, but assuming all the ANCs are against, the affected population is against and the Ward 3 rep is against…makes it hard to approve.[/quote]
The ANCs have no role in the historic designation process. [/quote]

Most of the Connecticut Corridor ANCs now are pro-smart growth and against preservation.[/quote]

What, exactly, is smart growth? And why do they think it is needed?
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And why exactly is “Smart Growth” needed in Chevy Chase DC [b]which was planned as a low-scale leafy semi suburban neighborhood[/b].  There have been and are plenty of locations in DC where dense, tall and mixed -use development is welcomed, like the Wharf, Nancy Yard, etc.  DC has a diversity of neighborhoods with different attributes that make many singular if not unique. Is it necessary that they all look the same?[/quote]

Around 1900, with a streetcar, by a segregationist. Now it's 120 years later, and things do sometimes change.[/quote]

You mean the segregationist senator who was a founder of the Chevy Chase Land Company 125 years ago?  Chevy Chase Land Co today funds Greater Greater Washington.  So a long ago association with a segregationist investor justifies upzoning a somehow “tainted” green, lower density neighborhood to dense upmarket development ?  Yet it’s perfectly fine for GGW to take money from the same company that the segregationist founded?  [/quote]
Good point.

It’s odd that GGWash puts onus of past racism on current residents who had nothing to do with it than the company who created it, profited from it and financially supports them.[/quote]

Fact is, the land use policies haven't changed much, which is exclusionary and part of the problem. Change the land use policies to be more inclusive and the issue for current residents goes away. As long as the current resident oppose those changes, they remain part of the problem. The comments returned in the ANC survey prove the point.[/quote]

“Inclusive” like CityRidge, etc?!  Smart Growth lobbyists can talk all they want about “equity” and “inclusion” but folks are starting to see through the spin and the bullshit.[/quote]

Inclusive like the Chevy Chase Community Center Redevelopment project which is the topic of this thread?[/quote]
How inclusive is it to drop low income residents into Chevy Chase without a car and only reliant on the bus for transportation?[/quote]

It's like 2/3 of a mile from there to a metro stop.[/quote]

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