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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]From reading DCUM, you'd think that the only two possibilities for a city are:

1. Cleveland Park
2. Midtown Manhattan[/quote]

This is so maddening. Of course there are other options. DC has those other options. If you want to move into a unit into any option in DC, there is space available for you right now. [b]Why do we need more of the denser options in the non dense areas is the question that none of the densification people can answer. [/b] Would it cost more to make Ward 1 more dense? You bet, but it is possible and it the people that live there have already demonstrated that they like the density.

I find it hilarious that the densifiers are aghast that Ward 3 does not want to be more dense. That is why those people chose to live there. They invested their housing dollar in DC, but the less dense flavor. Why would you expect them to cheerlead the death of the very thing they deliberately chose to avoid. The people buying in CP today could have spent their housing dollar in Adams Morgan had they wanted to.[/quote]

Eh. Your question is: Why should the city allow the building of housing that people want, in locations where people want it? It's an easy question to answer. You just don't like the answer.[/quote]

No, as somebody mentioned earlier this is all about the money. You can turn of phrase all you would like, the question has not been answered. This is about money and if you cannot see that, you are not living in DC.[/quote]

The answer to your question is that it's appropriate to build denser options in non-dense areas where people want denser options. If people didn't want denser options there, then there wouldn't be any money in providing denser options there.

Now, you may disagree about the appropriateness. For example, you may believe that it is NOT appropriate to build denser options in non-dense areas where people want denser options, if the current residents of those non-dense areas don't want them. But that's the answer. [/quote]

What about historic districts ?[/quote]

Well.exactly.  isnt the mayor trying to "emergency legislate" changes to all kinds of current codes to get this ward 3 density? Gross.[/quote]

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