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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of room for policies in between "let's make parts of D.C. denser than they are now to improve long-term sustainability and boost housing affordability" and "let's make all of D.C. as dense as New York City." This is a straw man argument at heart (so naturally, it's gone on for 42 pages and counting...).[/quote]

Parts of DC are already more densely populated than parts of NYC. [/quote]

And those are not the parts that are likely being targeted for increased density. [/quote]

So why should Great neighborhoods like Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park and AU Park be “targeted” for increased density ?![/quote]

I live in AU Park and think we could easily accommodate significantly more density without losing any of the characteristics that make the neighborhood great, let alone without worrying about safety.[b] If every block had one or two 4-unit apartment buildings[/b] where there's now a single-family house, my life wouldn't change a bit, but a lot more people would be able to afford to live here. [/quote]

This illustrates another problem that the urbanism crowd fails to address: Even with changes to the CP, you need to actually find the land to build upon, which isn't easy in DC. Doing so in a piecemeal manner -- adding one or two four-unit buildings here and there, as is the case now -- will not get the city anywhere close to Bowser's housing goals, and large-scale on already-developed commercial property is a massively expensive proposition for developers, who only would be able to make a profit by building luxury apartments, which would do little to solve the city's housing crunch.

To get the to the scale Bowser is proposing, eminent domain has to be brought into play, and that would be political suicide. [/quote]

So if you can't get it all done in one fell swoop, no point trying to move toward the goal at all? That seems sort of silly.[/quote]

Where does it say that?

The point is that is the CP changes are not the magic panacea GGW and the like make it out to be -- that all of DC's ills will be cured once those evil Ward 3 residents are taught a lesson, which has become David Alpert's mantra -- and that Bowser's plan is far easier said than actually done.[/quote]

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