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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rent increase is killing a lot of small business.[/quote]

Our zoning laws make it too hard to build densely in cities.  Until we fix zoning and take power out of the hands of NIMBYs we’re never going to have an affordable DC.[/quote]

THIS. Nimbies make is hard for small businesses to survive [/quote]

THIS is s joke, right?  Because replacement of smaller, older retail buildings with more of the same mixed-use ”commons-at-town-center” generica squeezes out indopemdently owned small businesses in favor of chains.  Longtime neighborhood-serving retail gets evicted or pushed out through much higher rents.  [/quote]

Well, if the NIMBY's had just let Giant build the original proposal (the 1999 one that had the open store frontage on Wisconsin Ave), all of the other mom & pop stores wold still be there, but *gasp* there would have been a parking garage instead of a surface parking lot.

So, ya, it is the NIMBYs fault.[/quote]

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