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[quote=Anonymous]To refocus the discussion, they did a great job on the Cleveland Park library.  I can't imagine that adding 8 or 10 floors of flats on top would have improved it.  In fact, the site is pretty small, and it's difficult to see where they could have dug an entrance to a parking garage given all of the Metro infrastructure right under the site.  As a PP pointed out, there are a lot of multi-family buildings in Cleveland Park, not just on Connecticut Avenue, but east of Connecticut as well.  Some of them are not exactly top of the market, which means that they offer more affordable rents than new construction.  The situation is not so dire that DC has to be monetizing every property that it has for development.  And suppose they put 75 or 80 units on top of the library, that would be at most 7 or 8 "inclusionary zoning" units in an upscale building, a drop in the bucket for privatizing a public asset.  And as was noted previously, IZ is certainly not the same thing as affordable.  [/quote]

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