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There aren't enough kids IB for Hardy to fill it. That's part of the problem.
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We can fix that

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Ha!  All OP is interested in building is more condos for single professionals and childless-couples, not families.  Their agenda is the  "Clarendonization" of DC -- ten storeis of hipster flats on top of a Five Guys and a wine bar.[/quote]

There are families with kids in apts/condos in Clarendon.  Also McLean.  And I am pretty sure in Upper Northwest.

But you are the Five Guys poster from the RE forum, so I do not expect you to have more than a cartoon view of new development. [/quote]

Hardly any new apartments in DC are built for families, and that's fine with the top bureaucrats in the DC government.  They want new residents who are substantial net taxpayers, and not pesky and pricey consumers of government services like public schools.[/quote]

I work for govt and I[b] can assure you that we have little to no control on the unit size in privately developed building[/b]s. The area we do control would be subsidized housing or public housing and let me guess, you would not be happy if we built that near you would you?  The City should be building three bedroom low income units on top of every librart but wait, no one actually wants poor families in the neighbrhood. Everythign else is market driven. The new three bedroom are 4k/month in rent at City center if you are interested.  And there is still a huge demand for studios and one bedrooms in the City, the developers have their own market studies and they wouldn't build them if they couldnt fill them. [/quote]

Not exactly true.  Many, if not most, if not most of these projects are PUDs, which means that they undergo special review because the developer is seeking relief from existing zoning or wants to build more than what zoning permits.  It would be very easy for the DC government to insist as a condition of granting the waiver from zoning requirements and approval of the project, that more affordable housing be included than what the law requires and that more larger units (at market or affordable) be built for families.  [/quote]

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