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You need to go back a few pages and look at the plans. The apartments could be be built up to the street, over existing green space. What is confusing?[/quote]

Building multi-family housing in the city is anti-environmental because it will reduce the number of yards that belong to single-family-detached houses with yards.

Oh wow.
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Hard to tell if we density bros are arguing with one idiot or two idiots in this thread.

There is no proposal to change the cities setback or rear/side yard requirements on commercial or residential properties and there are also no proposals to change the cities public space laws.

So sorry but no greenspace is going to be lost to build multi-family housing.[/quote]

Hmmm...This is simply not accurate. As soon as you upzone a house from SFH to multi family (through gentle densification) the setback can be changed. I am not sure that you have actually read any of the source documents that you are talking about. You can actually just read through the last five pages or so as everything appears to have been recapped.

You must be the same person shouting on page after page 'Give me one example of Single Family Zoning under threat to be changed'. The Mayor has provided thousands of examples of single family homes whos zoning can be changed so now whoever is arguing on this thread is changing the argument to greenspace. Greenspace by the way changes as percentage of lot which is water permeable is allowed to change.

Try reading a little instead of shouting sound bites that may have been valid at one point, but no longer are.[/quote]

Nope you are wrong.

First of all you changed what I've been writing which has been to point out that no single family zones have been proposed for upzoning which remains true - no proposal has been sent anywhere to change the zoning on a single family lot anywhere in DC.

With regards to what has been floated, but not actually proposed, to allow more than single family homes in some zones is a change to the function of buildings in those zones not the form.

You are conflating, no doubt purposely because it suits your purpose here to scare everyone, form and function and suggesting changes that are not proposed.

Please show where in the proposal the form of what can be built in a single family zone is proposed to be changed?[/quote]

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