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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC has a number of “lower density” single family residential neighborhoods.  (Note that they Council Chairman correctly points out that DC is the densest subnational jurisdiction in the nation.)  [b]People seem to value that[/b], particularly now: the fact that there is green space, that they can see the sunny sky without shadows all day, that that they can take walks without being on top of one another, and they can still hear birdsong and other natural sounds to calm them.   Why force zoning changes that would bring more density and height that people don’t want in their neighborhoods, just to make a fat buck for connected developers?[/quote]

Agreed, the people who are living in these affluent residential areas in the District of Columbia, who paid a lot of money in order to be able to live there, do not want builders to build more housing to meet the demand that other people also have to live there.[/quote]

Anacostia has rolling green neighborhoods as well. Why so focused on Ward 3 and affluence?[/quote]

Because, as Willy Sutton infamously said about banks, that’s where the money is.  For developers,[b] that’s where they can get the highest prices. [/b] The Office of Planning calls them “high opportunity zones” (for developers).  For the mayor, it’s a political plus.  She can reward her cronies and contributors lavishly by also playing on the old DC politics of resentment and grievance — that west of the park needs to meet its “fair burden” to have more density and by suggesting that lots of new construction there will prevent gentrification in NE and SE.[/quote]

And why can they get the highest prices there?

Because that's where the most people want to live.

Why do you live in Ward 3, and not in Ward 7 or 8 across the river?[/quote]

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