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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You are correct. NOTHING has been changed at this point. However, all of this has been proposed through the COMP Plan. So I suppose you will always be correct, until it is passed and then you won't be correct. But then it will be too late I suppose.

What is being conflated?

"Please show where in the proposal the form of what can be built in a single family zone is proposed to be changed?" What? I actually have no idea what you are saying here. Not to worry. DCUM editing is not easy. If you are asking again for an example of how single family zoned housing has been proposed to be changed, you are playing a semantics game because we all know that it has not been changed. What has changed is another set of rules that CAN be applied on top of single family zoning which creates the impact that the Mayor wants WITHOUT changing the term Single Family Zoning.

Maybe I misunderstood what you typed. I am not sure. It was not clear to me.

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You are being intentionally obtuse as you are counting on no one actually vetting any of your non-sense.  But that probably happens a lot when you are sitting alone in your room being paranoid.

DCOP has sent a formal proposal to the DC Council to update the Comp Plan.  Presumably at some point this fall, your bleatings here not withstanding, the DC Council will consider the proposal.

DCOP has written a report which they made public 3 weeks ago about what the impacts would be of loosening some of the use restrictions of single family homes within a half mile of Metrorail stations and high frequency bus routes.  As there is no formal proposal there is nothing for the DC Council to consider at this time.

You are deliberately conflating the two things because you know that the proposed changes to the Comp Plan potentially impact a relatively small number of people in the city so you are muddying the waters with this non-sense about something that is not a proposal.

Here is one not very in depth article about the REPORT DCOP issued a few weeks ago:

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/office-of-planning-recommends-gentle-density-in-transit-accessible-corridor/16763

And the actual report:

https://plandc.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/Comprehensiveplan/007_Single%20Family%20Housing%20Report.pdf

The report doesn't make any specific recommendations and is not a proposal so you don't know that any of the crap you've been dropping in this thread will ever be proposed.

But I suspect you know that other cities that have loosened up or banned single family zoning have not in other cities changed the form of what can be built but just the function.  Which is to say that a building that conforms to the lot occupancy, side yard and rear yard requirements and height limit that in the past could only be a single family home could now be a duplex.  Or several condos.

DC essentially took this step 5 years ago when they more or less legalized Accessory Dwelling Units in single family (and semi and detached) zones.  Which is to say houses that legally used to only be able to have one dwelling unit can now have two.

The house doesn't change but the units within it would.

But you knew that already and aren't here to clarify things but to conflate them.

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Hmmm...I don't think you have read the Comp Plan or the Report. That much is apparent from your musings. You linked the report so I'll spare you linking it again so that you can read its recommendations you could not find, but I'll include the following just in case you missed the term 'recommendations'.

CONCLUSION
This report recommends that the District pursue gentle
density in single-family zones in a targeted manner that
prioritizes neighborhoods that are high-opportunity,
high-cost, or near high-capacity transit. An important
element of this recommendation is ensuring that
the District maintains and grows a supply of familysized units as land uses change from single-family to
multifamily.[/quote]

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