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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family made the opposite choice -- to live in a historic district.  I agree that the city is big enough to have both to give people choices.[/quote]

The same.  We value having a historic district in the neighborhood.  And when we renovated and enlarged our house the process was not burdensome at all.[/quote]

The hysteria from the people opposed to historic designation is rather astounding.[b] It really isn't that big of a deal[/b], and frankly, it generally improves the overall quality of home renovations.[/quote]

So why do it?[/quote]

Why not? There are a lot of unique neighborhoods in DC, Chevy Chase is one of them. Why not celebrate a streetcar suburb of DC? It won't impact the proposals  for the community center, but it will "stabilize" the 100+ year old homes on either side of CT Ave.[/quote]

That’s a load of BS.  There is nothing that needs “stabilizing”…and it absolutely is being promoted as a tool to block/impede the community center development.

Just be honest about it.[/quote]

A historic district would provide some additional protection to some wonderful older buildings along Connecticut Avenue that aren't currently listed landmarks.  But the community center and library would not under any scenario qualify as contributing structures because they are not in the period of significance.  So your statement is not correct.[/quote]

No, you are slanting the argument with 1/2 truths.

[b]Non-contributing structures are still much, much harder to raze,[/b] which is what will happen in the new development.  They aren’t just renovating what’s there and building on top.

Also, the new development will be subject to all kinds of rules and regulations from the historic district.  They can’t just build what they think is the best, most efficient, most cost effective design.[/quote]

This is false. There is ZERO protection for non-contributing structures in historic districts.

The new development would undergo design review as part of the process if it were in a historic district, but given a lack of guidelines or prevailing architecturual styles in Chevy Chase, there is almost nothing guiding what could go there, so it is really a non-issue.[/quote]

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