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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP: I don’t want to re-copy such long posts. I’m curious about what the PPs commenting on FH’s lack of density have in mind. Friendship Heights Village, on the MD side of Western, was probably the earliest example in the area of building a dense, high rise community that could take advantage of public transit options. Are those of you describing the lack of density in FH only talking about the DC side of the neighborhood? I have to say that one of the things that makes living in the area attractive is the mixed-density and the green spaces (thank you GEICO!) that balance out the high rises on the MD side.

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FH, MD in fact is quite dense - denser than Manhattan actually though it is quite small (I think it is like 16 acres in total).

But it is very much car oriented density - all of the buildings are actually 4 story parking decks topped by 16 story residential buildings and all of the units have a lot of parking and are poorly connect to the street and it really isn't a lively or interesting place to walk. I would bet the DC side of the line generates more transit usage than the denser MD side.

But that may change as most of the buildings are condos that were built in the 70's and their residents skew heavily older - as those units turn over you may get different patterns of behavior and people who buy there to be within walking distance of the Metro.[/quote]

THose "dense" buildings include Sunrise senior center and a bunch of de facto senior living buildings.  Young people. young families are not living in those buildings.[/quote]

Throw out some stats instead of unsupported assertions.  There are quite a few young people. There are some school aged children — although the pattern, as with many UMC communities, is that many families with school aged children move to single family homes if they can afford to do so.  Pre- Covid I would have suggested that you check out the school buses, the gyms, the pools, and the lines in Chipotle.  The community does skew heavily childless — but that’s probably true of most high-rise apartment communities in areas that also have single family homes and townhouses that young families can afford. [/quote]

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