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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there is a neighborhood group that can pull together the money to buy the theater and program it as a non-profit and have it be viable from there, then terrific. God speed.

But short of that, it isn't viable as a theater any longer. It could be renovated with a multi story (not 6 or 7 as the hyperbole poster above falsely claims) addition to include housing.[/quote]

Thanks to Mary Cheh, the price for a non-profit to buy the Uptown just went up significantly.  Under current zoning, building height on that parcel is limited to 40-45 feet, about the height of the Uptown.  Therefore, the owner or a developer could repurpose the Uptown for something else, but couldn't build higher or add windows to the facade.  However, Cheh recently pushed the DC Council to increase the Future Land Map designation for the block to "medium density residential."  While this sounds innocuous, in DC zoning-speak this translates to zoning categories that allow buildings of up to 110 feet high, including a habitable penthouse floor.  So now the Uptown site is infinitely more valuable to real estate speculators and developers for its dense development potential, and a nonprofit will have to find 2 or 3 times the funds that they would have needed six months ago to purchase and save the Uptown.

Not sure whether Cheh is an idiot, simply indifferent, or a devious developers' tool.  But she just screwed the community and fans of the Uptown across the area.[/quote]

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