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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Have you seen the development in the Shaw Historic District? Or the 14th Street Historic District? Or the Anacostia Historic District? Being in a historic District does not block or impede development. If that is the reason the proponents have filed their application, they will be in for a surprise.[/quote]

Why is the development lobby, GGW, “Cleveland Park Smart Growth” (2+ miles from CCDC!), etc. fighting so hard to stop a relatively small Chevy Chase historic district?[/quote]

Why is the historic district lobby fighting the proposed development and trying to impose a historic district…if that doesn’t affect the development at all?

You can keep using the term “lobby” all you want…it’s trite and unimaginative and you can’t understand there are many individuals that are part of no lobby.[/quote]

Uh, perhaps because Chevy Chase has historic contributing resources that are worth preserving and to ensure that development is subject to design review for compatibilityj.[/quote]

So, why when I ask someone why they support the historic district is the most common reaponse that they don’t want the housing project to happen?

Nobody has ever said that it is just the design of the 6 story building they care about…they don’t want it to happen at all.

Even after saying what you wrote above they don’t believe it.  Clearly, the historic district lobby has no reason to push back and correct them.[/quote]

A historic district increases diversity and safety.  It will also attract free spending millennials and gen z by making the area more hip while at the same time be an important equity initiative.  It does not change anything at all but is vitally important and must be done because it will vastly improve things despite doing nothing.

Is that what you would prefer.[/quote]

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