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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]here's the best piece I've read on the proposal. Quite glad it's dead. Racists gonna racist. https://ggwash.org/view/93212/chevy-chase-historic-district-applicants-admit-what-its-actually-about[/quote]

I dunno. [b]Seems like the only people who are really into increasing density are white people who are *desperate* to move into overwhelmingly white neighborhoods[/b]. There's already lots of affordable housing in majority black neighborhoods that they like to pretend doesn't exist. [/quote]

Chef's kiss +1000

They are very picky about neighborhoods they want to move into, cheaply--they think that building tons of 1 bedroom condo will allow them to live in the nicest parts of DC for 1500 a month. Not going to happen. [/quote]

It will if you can the oldsters out lf their SFHs and into the condos. That's the next step.[/quote]

You people simply want to utilize the state to force your will on others — at their expense for your benefit. Same as it always was with you people. [/quote]

In academia, i.e., in urban planning and public policy, the single family home is simply not viable as a housing type going forward, especially near cities. That has been the case for about 15 years in the top programs. Most of those students are now planners (many working for government agencies), politicians, community activists and organizers, housing advocates, renters, etc.

Transportation planning has not quite caught up yet, since 6 lane arterials are still built to the standards of sprawling suburbia. But freeways are finally coming down in a few cities, under Buttigieg, and road narrowing projects, with dedicated bike lanes are moving forward in cities and older suburbs where single family homes are being phased out. [/quote]

DP, but the broader point is that what the US has been doing from a land use and transportation standpoint since the 1940's has proven not to work, so it is time to try something else, which means more density, more mass transit, etc and less single family homes and single occupancy cars.[/quote]

You are saying this as such a matter of fact statement when it is a very opinionated statement. It depends on what you are trying accomplish whether this is the most desirable option or not. Most Americans frankly don’t want to live in dense apartment communities. And the vast majority of Americans that can afford to live in SFH chose to do so.[/quote]

And it is unsustaniable from a landuse and transportation policy to cater to the myth that everyone has to live in a single family home. We need to change the discussion rather than catering to something that doesn't work and can't continue.

And no, it isn't an opinion, it is the consensus of urban planners and transportation planners and engineers over the past 30 years in context of UN resolutions and other climate change actions.[/quote]

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