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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The most likely scenario if DC goes down the road of a "public private partnership" to develop housing on the Chevy Chase DC library site is that developers will come back with a project is is heavily market-rate housing and not much more affordable than what the law requires anyway.  By then the Bowser administration will tell the the community that it has budgeted few funds for a new library and community center, so if Chevy Chase wants new facilities it will have to take something like 5333 Connecticut on this public site.  Basically, take it or shove it.[/quote]

It's funny...the 5333 Connecticut Avenue was going to be the end of the world for all the people opposed.  It got built...and crickets.  Because nobody cares.  Traffic didn't get horrifically worse...house values immediately adjacent held up just fine, etc.  All the horrible things that were going to happen...of course didn't happen.

It's another apartment/condo building in a city filled with them.[/quote]

This is true of...everything.

Tenley View and it's no parking provision;
AU Law School;
AU dorms;
Temp shelter on Idaho Ave;
GDS school;
Speed humps on XXX street (all of them and too many to list)
Sidewalks on XXX street (all of them, too many to list)
Cathedral Commons (aka Cleveland Park Giant)

People don't like change, but cities are evolutionary and need to adapt to growth and conditions. The idea that nothing should change, that everything be locked as is, is crazy and is not how anything in humankind has worked. The only thing these fights do is expose the crazy for who they are and cause rancor and divisiveness.

Literally everything gets challenged by the NIMBYs as "the end of the neighborhood" or "destroying the community" and literally nothing has dramatically changed.[/quote]

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