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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the  goal is to increase diversity at Deal, the only way that is going to happen is via zoning.  We need housing policy changes to add cheaper housing and make it possible for non-wealthy people to live there.
In particular we need to upzone the area, remove the single family housing restriction, and allow apartment buildings and other sorts of dense market rate housing.[/quote]

I love how the GGW crowd conveniently ignores all the apartment buildings, some of them downright massive, that either already exist in the Deal boundary -- basically all of Connecticut Avenue except for the retail areas and a good amount on Wisconsin -- or are going to be built: The 687 units that will come online in the Fannie Mae redevelopment and the 716 units in the project right next to it at 4000 Wisconsin, to name just a few. If the families who move into those complexes want to send their kids to their local DCPS, it'll be Deal.

Left completely unanswered by the "Ward 3 is the Boogeyman" crowd: How are already-overcrowded schools like Deal going to handle the influx when this urbanist utopia comes to fruition?[/quote]

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