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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love that DC has single family homes and that people can live in a decent-sized space within the city. And that's across all the wards. It's what makes DC DC. If you want to live in apartments, go to Crystal City or Washington Landing or whatever it's now called.

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I love that DC has single family homes too, but do you know what I'd love even more? [b]If people who owned single family zoned property were free to do whatever they wanted with the land that they own[/b] so that our massive housing shortage could be addressed.

The beauty of this plan is that literally everyone with a single family home who wants to keep their single family home can keep them. Your single family home can remain a single family home for as long as you live! The problem is that when people say "I love that DC has single family homes" they are not saying "I love that I can have a single family home," they are saying "I love that absolutely nobody who can't afford a single family home can gain a foothold in my neighborhood."

[quote]It's what makes DC DC. If you want to live in apartments, go to Crystal City or Washington Landing or whatever it's now called.[/quote]

Two can play at that game. I love that DC has dense rowhouses and walkable neighborhoods. It's what makes DC DC. If you want a single family home and never ever want to see apartments buildings built in your line of view, go to Loudoun or Fauquier or wherever.  
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I grew up in a place where people can do whatever they want with their land.  It is a hellscape called Houston. The reason that DC looks like it does is because of planning and zoning.  Keep your laissez-faire for ugly cities built to accommodate cars, strip malls, and billboards. [/quote]

Yes, Houston sucks.  Good thing these zoning changes don't permit strip malls, commercial use, or anything like that.  They only permit up to four residential units on a plot where previously only a SFH was permitted.

Oh, and I can't stress this enough . . . this is in Maryland, not DC, you nitwit.  [/quote]

Marylander here.   
No way do I want to see up to FOUR!! residential units on a plot where CURRENTLY only a SFH was permitted.  
Build this in your yard.  Your neighbors' yards.      
Many of us bought and live in SFH neighborhoods to do exactly that.  We could have chosen to live adjacent to mix-use.  Some do.  Some do not.  
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This kind of hysteria really demonstrates how bereft of reason these objections are.  First, neighborhoods change.  There's no reason to encase them in amber.  Second, the dreaded four-unit multi-unit building isn't going to be significantly (or any) larger than the large houses developers are putting up.  Third, as another PP said, it isn't like all the houses on Mass Ave are getting razed for massive construction projects.  If change happens, it will incremental.  Fourth, much of the new construction will be a RDUs, rather than a 4-unit building.  Fifth, you clearly don't know what "mixed-use" means.

It really does appear that the main objection in many neighborhoods (including mine) is that lots of current residents don't want to live too close to people who live in apartments, which means (charitably) "poor" people, or (less charitably) minorities.

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Won't you think of the property prices!
And the imaginary overcrowding of schools. The whole foods will also be packed. Not to mention that there's the risk that poorer/different/younger ppl may move in.

The "culture" of the neighborhood we all love and cherish will be destroyed by the money grabbing developers, and by the younger families who want a place to live in. There's a special place in heaven for nimbys...[/quote]

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