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[quote=Anonymous]So as per OP's original post, and what we now know about the virus, and reports of Mendelson's comments, I would say that the reality is that if the Comprehensive Plan is off of the table for 2020, it will be off of the table for quite a while.

Some posts in this thread seem to imply that we will make it through 'short term' problem and cannot risk long term Comp Plan goals. What this COVID situation is showing us daily is that it is not a short term issue. It is going to be with us in one way or another for at least a couple of years.

We will get back to work and DC will see something of a return to life as we knew it, but there will be designed scars for quite a while and designed habit changes.

Comp Plan was really surviving on momentum and being pushed along by a Mayor who was not getting a lot of push back because there were not a lot of issues consuming the public attention. The same camps were entrenched in their lines as always (DCPS, homelessness, Crime, NIMBY) but the vast majority of the population was happy to simply 'get by' every day in the relatively good living we have in DC. Now that indifferent camp has been poked with a stick and is at least paying attention some new issues... like crowding. So things like 'let's change the height rules' go from potentially slipping under our non observant consciousness to our collectively asking 'whoa...why do we want high rises or even more people in supermarkets...'

It will take quite a bit of time before people are going to be racing to add more people to any equation in a deliberate or programmed manner. And even those new equations will see fundamental changes as people seek to distance rather than focus on densely packed common area or corridors. (Do you think that occupants of DC's new family shelters wish that they had the option of cooking in their apartments now rather than having to eat in common areas with warmed up delivered food?)[/quote]

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