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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is DC. It has nothing to do with zoning and everything to do with corrupt city employees.

Case in point: I am friends with the developers who tore down the dilapidated house at the corner of Connecticut and Nebraska with the intention of building an six-unit condo building. In other words, David Alpert's wet dream, a SFH in evil Ward 3 turned into six luxury condos. But they had never developed a property in DC before, only in Maryland. It took them 18 MONTHS not to get their permits in order, but to find the right person they needed to bribe to get the permits. The building is now almost done. It could have been done a few years ago, but was held up by typical DC corruption.

This is why no one wants to build like this in DC. Unless you are a developer who has lined Muriel Bowser's campaign war chest, you have no hope of profit or even mere completion.[/quote]

BS, they started work without getting permits and had a stop work order for doing illegal work.[/quote]

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