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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those look fine to me.[/quote]

Yup and they are quite common all over DC including in Glover Park.  Though I don't think that is necessarily what is even being proposed.

The weird thing about Ward 3 is that it is a mix of some very high density housing and some very low density housing.  Most of the rest of DC has neither and is a mix of rowhouses and medium size housing like the pictures in the previous post.

I'm not opposed to what is being floated (I don't believe it has been formally proposed?) but think DC would get more bang for its buck and a more immediate increase in housing with zero visual/open space impact and minimal impact on schools and parking if the city really made it a lot easier to have legal ADU's.  We looked into making our basement an  ADU but it is 4 inches short of the legal height requirement for portions of the basement (but not others) but the height requirement is a fire code thing that goes back to the 1920's when we didn't even have smoke detectors.  I've asked around and apparently the 6 ft 8 inch basement ceiling height is common in DC.  And we got a couple of bids and it would cost tens of thousands to get that 4 inches.

And DC could also figure out some financing mechanisms to help people build external ADU's/convert their garages.

I think you could potentially add thousands of housing units this way with the benefits accruing to home owners and renters and not developers.[/quote]

Many people excavate their basements when renovating without asking for taxpayer financing to do it.[/quote]

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