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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fortunately I live in a historic district where the community does care about what goes in and the aesthetics are regulated.  I understand not everyone wants that, but I chose to live and invest in such an area.[/quote]

The aesthetics were not regulated when people were building the buildings that are now in the historic district.[/quote]

You mean back when there were actual craftsmen designing and building buildings, where details and nuance help shaped what was being built? You won't get that today because everything is built to be temporary - using plywood and tyvek as core materials on timber that is not old-growth. There is no way I would buy a house made in the last 15-20 years as anything more than a temporary dwelling.[/quote]

This is not an aesthetics argument.[/quote]

Its almost always an aesthetics argument though. We know developers will slap up some ugly disposable box made with Chinesium that will fall apart before you know it. Because that's what pencils out for the most profit for some private equity fund. Nobody wants to live next to that. People will live in it for a year or two because they lack other options, but no one is going to settle down in that kind of building. It will be transient central, suddenly full of cars still registered in IN, NY or FL.

That is until the building ages a bit and starts getting filled up with vouchers.

If the Carmelite Nuns or someone built a 12 story convent out of stone in the same spot, almost no one would object. Because they wouldn't bring a thousand cars with them, they would build roots in the neighborhood and the building would be beautiful. [/quote]

To summarize, you don't like:

1. renters
2. buildings that aren't made out of stone
3. cars (or cars that aren't registered in DC, I'm not sure which)

Alrighty then![/quote]

You are purposely misrepresenting what I said. I also like brick buildings.

Renters are also fine when they are a portion of an area. An area/city that goes too heavily towards renters will start to feel like those student slums beyond a tipping point. Lastly, everyone hates cars around here. Traffic is just a euphemism for "other people's cars", and everyone hates traffic. I've never seen anyone wish for more cars on the road, or more people parking on their street. The fact they don't even register their vehicles just shows they don't particularly feel attached to the city or neighborhood and plan to move on shortly.

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