Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 22:23     Subject: "No Mass Development on Mass Ave" signs
The goal is in part to mix lower SES folks into the high SES school pyramids. That requires cheaper housing options in those areas.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 21:53     Subject: "No Mass Development on Mass Ave" signs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We need development if we are to avoid homelessness. Your kids could be living in some of the new units…



There are vacancies all throughout the Connecticut Ave NW corridor. This development is not needed. It's just a grab for developers.


I agree. And whatever housing is built there, it's surely not going to be more middle class families. Those Westbard Square townhomes (under construction very nearby this Mass Ave location) sold out quickly. But weren't they $2M??
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 21:44     Subject: "No Mass Development on Mass Ave" signs
I love that DC has single family homes and that people can live in a decent-sized space within the city. And that's across all the wards. It's what makes DC DC. If you want to live in apartments, go to Crystal City or Washington Landing or whatever it's now called.

Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 21:41     Subject: "No Mass Development on Mass Ave" signs
Anonymous wrote:We need development if we are to avoid homelessness. Your kids could be living in some of the new units…



There are vacancies all throughout the Connecticut Ave NW corridor. This development is not needed. It's just a grab for developers.
Anonymous
Post 07/16/2025 21:35     Subject: "No Mass Development on Mass Ave" signs
We don’t want for our neighborhoods to to be upzoned.
Our schools, services, traffic do not need this additional density. And it won’t benefit anyone but developers.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 01:25     Subject: "No Mass Development on Mass Ave" signs
We need development if we are to avoid homelessness. Your kids could be living in some of the new units…
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2025 01:09     Subject: "No Mass Development on Mass Ave" signs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Those who own land/property should be able to do what they want with it within reason. I say that as an AU park resident happy that they finally started construction on the super fresh site. Ridiculous the power that NIMBYs have in the region.


As an AU resident within a block of the massive development, YES, agree. I was curious if the massive development organizers had taken their delay tactics to MD.


"Delay tactics" won't work on that part of Mass Ave. There's no big eyesore of a former grocery store there. No one in Westgate or Westmoreland Hills is clamoring for anything to either be torn down or built on that block. The local elementary and middle school can't serve more students. And if local townhomes or condos are built, it's only going to benefit the developer and will be priced too high to help ease housing needs for anyone but affluent buyers.



This makes no sense. New homes will benefit sellers and buyers, hence the transaction. Neighbors don’t have to clamor for anything. It’s a free country and private entities should be free to do with their property whatever they deem fit within reason.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 22:42     Subject: "No Mass Development on Mass Ave" signs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Those who own land/property should be able to do what they want with it within reason. I say that as an AU park resident happy that they finally started construction on the super fresh site. Ridiculous the power that NIMBYs have in the region.


As an AU resident within a block of the massive development, YES, agree. I was curious if the massive development organizers had taken their delay tactics to MD.


"Delay tactics" won't work on that part of Mass Ave. There's no big eyesore of a former grocery store there. No one in Westgate or Westmoreland Hills is clamoring for anything to either be torn down or built on that block. The local elementary and middle school can't serve more students. And if local townhomes or condos are built, it's only going to benefit the developer and will be priced too high to help ease housing needs for anyone but affluent buyers.