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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One Idea That Never Dies For UMC DCPS

1. Concentrate all UMC (preferably white) students at Deal/Wilson. 
2. [b]Lobby against affordable housing on Deal/Wilson cachement.[/b]
3. Lobby against OOB students in Deal/Wilson cachement. 
4. Lobby against expanded  transportation in Deal/Wilson cachement by clutching pearls re: “buses destroying foundations of our homes.”
5. Lobby, salivating, for sueing residency cheaters, preferably brown.
6. Lobby, salivating, for sueing boundry cheaters, preferably brown. 
7. Blame parents in EOTP/across the river schools for bad parenting, poverty.
8. Rinse and repeat. [/quote]

Vs.  the one other idea: keep sending as many students as possible to Deal/Wilson in hopes that no politically unpleasant decisions need be made and no one notices the decline in educational quality for every single student regardless if color due to overcrowding.

What is your answer to the question in the title of this thread?[/quote]

A little known fact is Ward 3 today contains the second highest number of rent controlled apartments among DC’s wards.  These tends to be units in older, non-luxury buildings.  Yet the “smart growth” lobby, while professing to support affordable housing, is actively pushing for amendments to the DC comprehensive plan which, if enacted, would upzone many of these rent controlled apartment buildings, leading to their demolition and a significant reduction of affordable housing in the Wilson cachement area.  Don’t be seduced by the disingenuous spin of big development special interests.

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Who is the dim Ward 3 nimby who keeps making this idiotic point at every opportunity?

Can you provide a single example of a building with a lot of rent controlled apartments that someone has proposed for upzoning?  As in provide an address of such a building and what has been proposed for the lot.

Rent controlled apartments are a tiny percentage of apartments in both DC and in Ward 3.  And those apartments are not apportioned based on income so there is essentially no correlation between those units and assisting low income folks in finding an affordable place to live.

Please drop this stupid argument - I know it seems really clever to you but your argument makes no sense.[/quote]

Upzoning the major arterials in Ward 3 (Wisconsin, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc.) to permit the same height and density as downtown is one of the Comp Plan amendments  proposed by GreaterGreaterGreed and the big development echo chamber.  It would have the impact of eliminating many affordable older units.  [/quote]

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