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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nick, Ed and Lance?[/quote]

Nick = Nick DellaDonne, the erstwhile bike opponent who has been caught on video yelling at children with a megaphone.

No idea who Ed and Lance are.[/quote]

Ed Hanlon, his buddy attorney who Chevy Choice Voice retained.  Lance is a lackey of theirs who is a frequent agitator on the AdMo listserv and in the public meetings.

Anyway, while certainly they hate bikes and cyclists, the thing they dislike even more is affordable housing and change in the neighborhoods of the city that takes the form of development.[/quote]

These "nothing can/should ever change because its perfect the way it is" fools.  Bound to show up a community meeting or development site near you.

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Change for the sake of change or unneeded density also is a real problem.[/quote]

…and some ideas are just bad.  Of course people would show up to community meetings to complain.[/quote]

At ones 10 neighborhoods or more away from where they live?[/quote]

So people in the neighborhood should be heard more loudly than people outside the neighborhood?  We should listen to the survey? Ok, fine by me.

Please let the YIMBY shills know that they should mind their own business…it’s not their backyard, anyway.[/quote]

Exactly, it's the bike lobby bro/greater greater washington nexus. Mainly white dudes trying to ruin things.[/quote]

How very droll of the entitled, white, boomer who adamantly believes their way of life is perfect and all others should just accept that.[/quote]

NP, here. What makes you think anyone here is white or boomer?  My family isn't and we oppose this. But your snarkiness puts a microscope on your prejudices. Whenever someone says something you don't like, you decide to try to say they're entitled or old or white. When you very most likely are white and entitled yourself. Why does your voice matter more than others?[/quote]

Because if you look at the results of the ANC survey, they overwhelming respondents who were oversampled in the results, were aging white boomers who are opposed to the redevelopment. But I am a different posted than who you are responding to. That would be my guess.[/quote]

It’s really hard to fathom why anyone would be cheerleading so hard (on Christmas no less) for fancy housing on this civic site when there are other buildings and developments going up around upper Northwest.  One assumes that the cheerleader either is a developer who hopes to scoop up an opportunity on favorable terms or someone being paid by a developer, an investor group, or maybe the DC planning office.  In any event, the attempt to sow division based on race and age is offensive.  It’s a real estate project.[/quote]

What difference does it make that it is Christmas?

What other affordable housing is going up in Upper Northwest? Please be specific on location and number of units. If anything, on Christmas, we should be cheering for opportunities to provide housing for people who need the help, you know, act Christian.[/quote]

You are deluding yourself if you think this will be affordable housing.  If you read a number of postings on this thread from proponents of the development they are very careful not to commit to any affordable housing percentage or number.  A few say it will at least contain the legally required minimum, which is a meagre 8 percent.  That’s the percentage at City Ridge and the large building on Connecticut and Military.  Why then should a public site be given over to private development with no assurances that it won’t just be more of the same?[/quote]

We won't know until we see the RFP and the responses to the RFP. The whole point of this project is that the finances work to maximize affordable housing because the city owns it and that is what it wants there. [/quote]

We don’t need to see the RFP to know that this is a waste of money and that any limited “affordable” housing provided by this project is unlikely to be worth the loss of public space.

Our government should not waste money writing up an RFP for a failed project gated by the community.[/quote]

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