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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Where is all of the affordable housing?  It's like 8 percent "inclusionary zoning," which is not really affordable.  It's really just more upmarket flats that are generally too small for families, just like City Ridge.  And yet Bowser, GGW, Smart Growth, etc. continue to sell more of the same market rate apartments and condos throughout Ward 3 as affordable housing.  People are starting to see through the bullshit.[/quote]

I don't know, but I also don't care.  5333 Connecticut was built on private land owned by the developer without any city assistance.

Just pointing out that building any apartment building in a city and area where there are hundreds, is a non-event.[/quote]

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