Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any additional housing in Ward 3 will be bought by upper-middle class white people who will do anything to get their kids into Murch or Eaton or Wilson.

Increasing density is so *completely* pointless.

This

Eaton, really? Why would you pay top dollar to go to a school with a large OOB population. Kinda defeats the point.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any additional housing in Ward 3 will be bought by upper-middle class white people who will do anything to get their kids into Murch or Eaton or Wilson.

Increasing density is so *completely* pointless.

This

Eaton, really? Why would you pay top dollar to go to a school with a large OOB population. Kinda defeats the point.

I think that the point is that if you put 10K more people in Ward 3 (low estimates) or up to 30K more people, then the existing schools will simply not be enough. There will need to be new schools build to handle the increased K-12 demand/load. Right now the new Comp Plan does not address schools. Not sure if this is a deliberate oversite or just acknowledgement that the solution will cost money and school build sites would be competing with the far more profitable multi family housing build sites.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any additional housing in Ward 3 will be bought by upper-middle class white people who will do anything to get their kids into Murch or Eaton or Wilson.

Increasing density is so *completely* pointless.

This

Eaton, really? Why would you pay top dollar to go to a school with a large OOB population. Kinda defeats the point.

I think that the point is that if you put 10K more people in Ward 3 (low estimates) or up to 30K more people, then the existing schools will simply not be enough. There will need to be new schools build to handle the increased K-12 demand/load. Right now the new Comp Plan does not address schools. Not sure if this is a deliberate oversite or just acknowledgement that the solution will cost money and school build sites would be competing with the far more profitable multi family housing build sites.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any additional housing in Ward 3 will be bought by upper-middle class white people who will do anything to get their kids into Murch or Eaton or Wilson.

Increasing density is so *completely* pointless.

This

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any additional housing in Ward 3 will be bought by upper-middle class white people who will do anything to get their kids into Murch or Eaton or Wilson.

Increasing density is so *completely* pointless.

This

Eaton, really? Why would you pay top dollar to go to a school with a large OOB population. Kinda defeats the point.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any additional housing in Ward 3 will be bought by upper-middle class white people who will do anything to get their kids into Murch or Eaton or Wilson.

Increasing density is so *completely* pointless.

This

Anonymous wrote:Any additional housing in Ward 3 will be bought by upper-middle class white people who will do anything to get their kids into Murch or Eaton or Wilson.

Increasing density is so *completely* pointless.

It’s surprising that the Comp Plan doesn’t have as a goal the undergrounding of utility wires, with all of the benefits that would bring for reliability during storms, the tree canopy and aesthetics. But I assume PEPCo long ago captured the Council and the regulator, so nothing will happen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser claims the opposite.

“Crowding and population density... are the most important factors in determining the havoc the virus can wreak....This is not just because more crowded areas increase the risk of spread, but also because we’re learning that crowding itself may also affect the death rate.”

We Know Crowding Affects the Spread. It May Affect the Death Rate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/opinion/coronavirus-crowds.html?referringSource=articleShare

Bowser is considering this a 'one off' scenario that should not prejudice her otherwise sound plan.

She has already thought through the other requirements for her densification and has planned accordingly with massively modernized water supply, enhanced robust electrical grid, flexible growing schooling plan for kids K-12, a responsive a growing public transportation network, and an economic base that expands beyond government and lobbying. I believe those chapters of the COMP Plan are getting published in May. /s

DC PLUG actually addresses putting the lines underground https://www.pepco.com/SmartEnergy/ReliabilityImprovements/Pages/DCPLUG.aspx

However, PEPCO ended up agreeing to this because they did not want to outlay capital to really modernize the system. They actually will modernize right now if they are allowed to pass costs off to the customer. However, by law they cannot do that with City Council involvement

” Anenhanced robust electrical grid” - this means they will allow Pepco to cut down all of the street trees to put even heavier wires on the poles.
“A flexible growing schooling plan for kids K-12, a responsive a growing public transportation network” - this means put more an more students into the same set of WOTP and to hope for the best.

So these are topics for another post but an enhanced electrical grid is the opposite of what you are saying. It would be a lighter, more flexible, robust and redundant system that not only distributes power from far away electrical sources, but also within the city solar, battery etc. It can handle flow back onto the grid safely and for the most part can heal itself once it identifies problems. Just bringing our decades old system into modern times.

School have to to grow and improve (they have to do that now and they will have to do that at a MUCH larger scale)

It’s surprising that the Comp Plan doesn’t have as a goal the undergrounding of utility wires, with all of the benefits that would bring for reliability during storms, the tree canopy and aesthetics. But I assume PEPCo long ago captured the Council and the regulator, so nothing will happen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Because SFZ (Single family Zoned) areas are some of the city's most racially-segregated, largely retaining the demographics established by restrictive covenants and discriminatory lending, the report recommends targeting gentle density for particular areas that would achieve equity goals."

Here it is. There is no academic argument, so call the current zoning racist.

This is some looking glass sh*t.

Where i live (Ward 4), 'increasing density' is code for kicking black people out of DC.

They buy homes from middle-class black homeowners, gut them and replace them with million-dollar condos that are all bought by young white people.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser claims the opposite.

“Crowding and population density... are the most important factors in determining the havoc the virus can wreak....This is not just because more crowded areas increase the risk of spread, but also because we’re learning that crowding itself may also affect the death rate.”

We Know Crowding Affects the Spread. It May Affect the Death Rate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/opinion/coronavirus-crowds.html?referringSource=articleShare

Bowser is considering this a 'one off' scenario that should not prejudice her otherwise sound plan.

She has already thought through the other requirements for her densification and has planned accordingly with massively modernized water supply, enhanced robust electrical grid, flexible growing schooling plan for kids K-12, a responsive a growing public transportation network, and an economic base that expands beyond government and lobbying. I believe those chapters of the COMP Plan are getting published in May. /s

” Anenhanced robust electrical grid” - this means they will allow Pepco to cut down all of the street trees to put even heavier wires on the poles.
“A flexible growing schooling plan for kids K-12, a responsive a growing public transportation network” - this means put more an more students into the same set of WOTP and to hope for the best.

So these are topics for another post but an enhanced electrical grid is the opposite of what you are saying. It would be a lighter, more flexible, robust and redundant system that not only distributes power from far away electrical sources, but also within the city solar, battery etc. It can handle flow back onto the grid safely and for the most part can heal itself once it identifies problems. Just bringing our decades old system into modern times.

School have to to grow and improve (they have to do that now and they will have to do that at a MUCH larger scale)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Because SFZ (Single family Zoned) areas are some of the city's most racially-segregated, largely retaining the demographics established by restrictive covenants and discriminatory lending, the report recommends targeting gentle density for particular areas that would achieve equity goals."

Here it is. There is no academic argument, so call the current zoning racist.

This is some looking glass sh*t.

Where i live (Ward 4), 'increasing density' is code for kicking black people out of DC.

They buy homes from middle-class black homeowners, gut them and replace them with million-dollar condos that are all bought by young white people.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser claims the opposite.

“Crowding and population density... are the most important factors in determining the havoc the virus can wreak....This is not just because more crowded areas increase the risk of spread, but also because we’re learning that crowding itself may also affect the death rate.”

We Know Crowding Affects the Spread. It May Affect the Death Rate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/opinion/coronavirus-crowds.html?referringSource=articleShare

Bowser is considering this a 'one off' scenario that should not prejudice her otherwise sound plan.

She has already thought through the other requirements for her densification and has planned accordingly with massively modernized water supply, enhanced robust electrical grid, flexible growing schooling plan for kids K-12, a responsive a growing public transportation network, and an economic base that expands beyond government and lobbying. I believe those chapters of the COMP Plan are getting published in May. /s

” Anenhanced robust electrical grid” - this means they will allow Pepco to cut down all of the street trees to put even heavier wires on the poles.
“A flexible growing schooling plan for kids K-12, a responsive a growing public transportation network” - this means put more an more students into the same set of WOTP and to hope for the best.

Anonymous wrote:"Because SFZ (Single family Zoned) areas are some of the city's most racially-segregated, largely retaining the demographics established by restrictive covenants and discriminatory lending, the report recommends targeting gentle density for particular areas that would achieve equity goals."

Here it is. There is no academic argument, so call the current zoning racist.