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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We also need to allow zoning for businesses in residential neighborhoods. Think about all the elderly people aging in isolation that don't leave the house as often as they should because it involves driving. If they were able to walk to get their groceries and stop to get coffee every day, it would do wonders for their mental and physical health, as well as have more people in the local community keeping their eye out on them every day. [/quote]

Yes, so many elderly people love walking with their canes, walkers, and wheelchairs to go pick up groceries and coffee and lug it all back home. Sometimes it feels like all of these comments are written by people in their 30’s who have never experienced life with elderly people.[/quote]

And then the same YIMBY “activists” are fine with eliminating off street parking requirements under zoning as well as street parking near pharmacies and other businesses.  The sneer and call it “car storage” and want dedicated bike lanes in place of convenient street parking that less mobile people depend on to run essential errands.[/quote]

The way this is supposed to work is that if you live in a building without off-street parking, you're not eligible to get a residential parking permit, period — so you're discouraged from having a car. That way, the only people who want to move to the building will be people without cars, and parking for everyone else won't be affected. Sounds fine to me. Want to make sure you have parking? Don't live there.[/quote]

Like such responses on most of these threads, it approaches the conditions imposed as though everyone who might live there is making the choice from the outside.

Want to live there with yhe new reality?  Great!  You can!

Don't want to live there with the new reality?  Great!  You don't have to!  ([i]but you'll need to move, disrupt your family and neighbor relationships, etc., etc. -- and let's just not mention that[/i])

You know where that kind of choice works?  Greenfield development.[/quote]

It works in new construction, though. Obviously you can't impose these restrictions on existing buildings where people already live. [/quote]

That's why greenfield was mentioned at the end, there.[/quote]

Right, but there's a decent amount of new construction in and around D.C., and I can't recall a single example of a building being retroactively rendered ineligible for RPP permits after it was already built and occupied.[/quote]

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