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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's absolutely no reason the mixed-use or apartment buildings along Wisconsin Avenue near where I live (and near two different Metro stops and multiple bus lines) shouldn't be significantly taller, and thus, house significantly more people. That's nowhere near the historic core, so you're not blocking anyone's views of the Washington Monument or the Capitol, either.[/quote]

How about lack of space in schools to accommodate more people? Traffic? Transportation infrastructure inadequate to handle more people? Etc. etc.[/quote]

Plenty of space on Metro these days. I don’t think traffic is a good reason not to build more housing — I don’t like traffic, either, but it’s pretty selfish to say no one else can live here because existing residents don’t want to deal with any inconvenience. And if enough new people move in, they’ll build more schools. Ostensibly my kids go to an overcrowded school, but their class sizes have all been smaller than mine were growing up in the Maryland suburbs, and I haven’t found class size to be a major problem for them anyway. [/quote]

They'll build more schools? Where? Clearly you aren't even from around here.[/quote]

D.C. built a brand-new middle school in 2019 and has just proposed building a new elementary school and new middle school in Ward 3. (Not to mention that new charter schools open every year.)

Even if you took the Height Act off the books tomorrow, though, it'd be years before taller buildings meant significantly more students in any given school (since none of them are so much as designed, much less under construction), so I don't think this is a serious reason to oppose changing the law.  [/quote]

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