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[quote=Anonymous]- Relax the height limit downtown. I don't think we need to eliminate it, but the current 12-13 story cap makes it hard for larger headquarters to locate here, increases construction costs, and doesn't actually do much to improve quality of life on the ground in the ways people tend to claim. Allowing 20-25 stories (e.g., up to the height of the Capitol dome regardless of street width) would be much better. Couple the looser restrictions with sensible requirements about floor plates that encourage adaptive reuse instead of leaving us with a bunch of albatross older office buildings as we have now. Higher heights downtown would also take some of the pressure off to redevelop existing neighborhoods, which often runs into expensive opposition.
- Get NPS to give DC more local control of parks. So many of our parks could be fixed up and enhanced with local resources if only we were allowed to do it.
- Figure out an effective way to go after MD and VA drivers with large numbers of tickets, and increase enforcement of traffic violations other than speeding.[/quote]

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