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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Please link to the proposal to end exclusive zoning for single-family-detached houses?[/quote]

Mayor gets around single family housing zoning by introducing new rules that supersede single family zoning. IOW the Sing Family Housing zoning will still exist, however, these new rules will be a higher priority and allow building within these new parameters. So now take your highlighter and expand the FLUM map zoning that the density people keep sharing showing the traditional single family home zoning areas and expand that by the bolded areas below. That new map has not been published by the Mayor because it would not float. The proposal does admit that 72% of single family houses WOULD be impacted by this new ruling. But again, people are less comfortable with statistics as they are with pictures.

As the PP seems to be persnickety with verbiage his use of the word exclusive allows the other poster to correctly say that this new proposal ENDS current EXCLUSIVE zoning and the zoning will no longer be exclusive as single family zoning will now be defined as single family with the addition of gentle density modifications (multifamily houses, town houses, row houses built in place of existing single family houses within the parameters below)

The Mayor’s Comp Plan Proposal and its Future Land
Use Map focus on increasing density along highcapacity transit corridors. Gentle density within singlefamily neighborhoods would be complemented by
larger buildings on main streets and corridors. Gentle
density in single-family zones can be prioritized in
areas that are within access to a high-capacity transit
corridor,[b] which is defined as a half-mile from a Metro
station and a quarter-mile from a stop on a priority
bus corridor.[/b] Many single-family neighborhoods in the
District abut high-capacity transit corridors, in fact,
approximately 72 percent of lots within single-family
zones are within walking distance from a Metro station
or a bus stop on a priority corridor.[/quote]

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