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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The question wasn't about streets next to Wisconsin Ave. It was about Wisconsin Ave.

Are there a lot of people living in single-family houses with yards [b]on Wisconsin Avenue[/b]? [/quote]

Somebody keeps trying to answer you nicely. The answer is yes.

Yes. Si. Da.

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Where?[/quote]

Dude/Dudette do you live in DC?

Wisconsin between Newark and Porter. I would have listed south of those, but those have already been redeveloped (no issues, just mentioning it because there is a perception that Ward 3 has not built any multi family housing. This section has been slammed with new multi family housing. Heck they even spun a house around to create room for a high rise.)

Anyway, you can walk down Wisconsin and see the single family housing and multi family housing. I think the PP was just saying that they did not want it to be built taller than it already is. I agree with them. Limit construction to the current height restrictions.[/quote]

You can count those houses on two hands.
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The current height restrictions are not being changed[/b] - all that is happening is the zoning is allowing buildings as tall as those that already exist on Connecticut, Mass and New Mexico to built on Wisconsin Ave and some parts of Connecticut where building density is one category lower.

The nutjobs (or in the case of DCUM singular nutjob) keep screaming as if this is something radical or new for DC or even Ward 3 but it is not - in fact this level of density is both common and dates back almost 100 years.[/quote]

Hey previous example giver. Never give an example of anything on DCUM because others will nitpick it to death. They asked for one example and then castigated you for giving ten. Just not worth it.

Besides look at the bolded. The DCUM expert here claims nothing is changing as far as height restrictions. So you have that going for you.

Interestingly those villafying your examples have not given an example of what they feel ideal density is. They just want more. Somebody earlier suggested that perhaps the goal should be Ward 1 or Ward 2 density.

Anyway, I think that with the COVID slow down we are all happy that we are living here and not NYC. Is that because of the metro or world class hospitals or better delivery food. No, it is because of less density and less competition for resources. [/quote]

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