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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their project is WAY too dense and the usage too intense to be crammed up against single family homes. Period. Full stop. Anyone with any grasp of good zoning practices and that is not completely beholden to developers whose families are safely ensconced in Potomac or taken in by the mystical mantra of "smart growth" would recognize that there need to be  "buffer" zones when moving from heavy duty commercial to single  family homes. If the city starts losing the families and tax base of AU Park to the suburbs, we will be right back to the 80s and 90s when people felt sorry for you if you lived in the District.  The city should be very wary of throwing its lot in with the transiency of apartment buildings at the cost of losing the single family home tax base.[/quote]

LOL  Have you gotten into your Oldsmobile sedan and driven around the rest of the city at any point over the past decade or two?  DC isn't losing its tax base and isn't losing its families either.  The city is BOOMING and new DC citizens are pouring in.  Tenleytown can take a Brexit view and shake a fist at the younger, far more diverse and energetic new DC citizens OR Tenleytown can try to figure out how to catch up with the rest of the city. Look at Capitol Hill, which like Tenleytown was a little left out of everything a decade or two ago, but then embraced development both on either edge of the neighborhood, but also on its central commercial streets.  It now is not only a destination neighborhood for market shopping by day and eating by night, but it is absolutely booming with families and kids everywhere.

The GDS project can't solve all of the problems of Tenleytown being lost in time (and not in a good way), but hey it's a start.  You're being thrown a lifeline![/quote]

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