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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do we have sort of goal to be the densest city in the mid Atlantic? Good, we are not the densest city. Now, lets not try and get more dense.[/quote]

Could y'all make up your minds, please? Is more housing in DC bad because DC is already a dense city, or is more housing in DC bad because DC is not a dense city and shouldn't be one?[/quote]

It's the Bros and Bras that don't get it. Too dense or not dense enough. Right now it's pretty darn nice. Let's not make it MORE dense. [/quote]

OK, I'll put you in the Neighbors Against More Neighbors column.[/quote]

The problem is the sliding 'Density' scale. The Density people are never happy. First it was ADU's (they made sense and they would increase density) but then the ADU's were not enough, so the goal posts were moved. Now we are at high rises on major transportation corridors that the Density crowd cannot imagine how lining a street with 14 story buildings on a street that currently has three story buildings will change the 'look'.

So after we have transportation corridors lined with tall buildings, the new Comp Plan also gives the Density people the right to build tall building off of the corridor so long as the tall densely populated building is within a quarter mile of a bus stop or a half mile of a metro station. It does not take any imagination to see where this expansion is going and if you can't see that, you certainly have no business city planning.[/quote]

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