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5. I HATE to admit this, but parking is going to have to come back for several years. There is just no way WMATA is going to come up with a clean metro system anytime soon. [b]So people are going to drive. [/b]Therefore all of these new buildings with no parking spots is simply going to mean cars parked on the streets. We need to go back to old parking spot for units built.

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The geometry of the city hasn't changed.

And requiring underground parking based on the idea that every 100 years or so, there will be a pandemic, and people who have the money for it will want to drive cars instead of taking Metro, and therefore apartment buildings must have expensive underground parking so that these people can conveniently park their cars not on the street - that's just silly.[/quote]

The geometry of the city has not changed. Nobody said it has. The fact that people including workers will now be driving rather than taking mass transit. That has changed. And if through density we want to create housing for those worker in the city so that they are not commuting from the burbs, those workers will need parking. This is not a 100 year pandemic. This will be here for a while in waves. We need to have design a city that allows us to operate during future waves.

Oh, out of curiosity have you visited a construction site in DC over the last five years. The workers all arrive in MD registered vehicles and park on streets adjacent to the construction site. If you are trying to capture that population and have them move into the city you need to acknowledge that they come with cars and are certainly not going to use metros which NYC has said definitively spread the virus through NYC and through its labor population.[/quote]

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