Anonymous wrote:MAMiL=middle-aged man in lycra

Living in mom's basement and convinced that the GDS development somehow will lower the price of an upscale hipster flat on U St for him...

MAMiL=middle-aged man in lycra

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The size and shape of the Volvo site make it an unlikely location for a supermarket.

Wasn't the selling off of a broken down Safeway with minimal traffic proof that a new supermarket is what is NOT needed there. Probably safe to say no more need for a Volvo dealer, since no one buys Volvos any more. All part of the throwback-80s Tenleytown. And we like it that way!

Are you not aware of the many many protests by neighbors that they simply could not function without that crappy Safeway?

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/


Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing.

aka Greater Greater Washington. Think of it as a secondlife-type site for MAMiLS masquerading as hipsters.

Anonymous wrote:What is GGW?

The breathless cheerleading squad for local Big Development interests.

What is GGW?

I think that the rhetoric you've quoted is coming more from the GGW crowd than from GDS boosters. But agree about the breathtaking arrogance of both groups.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their project is WAY too dense and the usage too intense to be crammed up against single family homes. Period. Full stop. Anyone with any grasp of good zoning practices and that is not completely beholden to developers whose families are safely ensconced in Potomac or taken in by the mystical mantra of "smart growth" would recognize that there need to be "buffer" zones when moving from heavy duty commercial to single family homes. If the city starts losing the families and tax base of AU Park to the suburbs, we will be right back to the 80s and 90s when people felt sorry for you if you lived in the District. The city should be very wary of throwing its lot in with the transiency of apartment buildings at the cost of losing the single family home tax base.[/quote]

LOL Have you gotten into your Oldsmobile sedan and driven around the rest of the city at any point over the past decade or two? DC isn't losing its tax base and isn't losing its families either. The city is BOOMING and new DC citizens are pouring in. Tenleytown can take a Brexit view and shake a fist at the younger, far more diverse and energetic new DC citizens OR Tenleytown can try to figure out how to catch up with the rest of the city. Look at Capitol Hill, which like Tenleytown was a little left out of everything a decade or two ago, but then embraced development both on either edge of the neighborhood, but also on its central commercial streets. It now is not only a destination neighborhood for market shopping by day and eating by night, but it is absolutely booming with families and kids everywhere.

[b]the GDS project can't solve all of the problems of Tenleytown being lost in time (and not in a good way), but hey it's a start. You're being thrown a lifeline![/b][/quote]

Although perhaps no longer surprising on DCUM, the douchey arrogance and condescension of some GDS boosters is still breathtaking. No social cues understanding apparently. :shock:

Not every neighborhood aspires to be a shopping and entertainment "destination." That's what Friendship Heights became, and that's ok. They can keep it.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their project is WAY too dense and the usage too intense to be crammed up against single family homes. Period. Full stop. Anyone with any grasp of good zoning practices and that is not completely beholden to developers whose families are safely ensconced in Potomac or taken in by the mystical mantra of "smart growth" would recognize that there need to be "buffer" zones when moving from heavy duty commercial to single family homes. If the city starts losing the families and tax base of AU Park to the suburbs, we will be right back to the 80s and 90s when people felt sorry for you if you lived in the District. The city should be very wary of throwing its lot in with the transiency of apartment buildings at the cost of losing the single family home tax base.[/quote]

LOL Have you gotten into your Oldsmobile sedan and driven around the rest of the city at any point over the past decade or two? DC isn't losing its tax base and isn't losing its families either. The city is BOOMING and new DC citizens are pouring in. Tenleytown can take a Brexit view and shake a fist at the younger, [b]far more diverse and energetic new DC citizens [/b]OR Tenleytown can try to figure out how to catch up with the rest of the city. Look at Capitol Hill, which like Tenleytown was a little left out of everything a decade or two ago, but then embraced development both on either edge of the neighborhood, but also on its central commercial streets. It now is not only a destination neighborhood for market shopping by day and eating by night, but it is absolutely booming with families and kids everywhere.

The GDS project can't solve all of the problems of Tenleytown being lost in time (and not in a good way), but hey it's a start. You're being thrown a lifeline![/quote]r

Also, the older people aren't moving anywhere when they can probably walk to a Saks, Bloomingdales, and Jimmy Choo. Please. [/quote]

Which in the DC context means young white professionals. LOL.

Anonymous wrote:I walked around Columbia heights the other day and it was so filthy. No thanks to development if the city can't clean the gum all the new people it brings spit on the sidewalk. It was gross.

You were up at 3:00 in the morning and spent your time posting this? Wow, get a life.

Also, maybe people shouldn't spit gum on the ground and maybe the property owners should take a little pride to keep things clean and tidy. Why is it on the city to do everything for you?

I walked around Columbia heights the other day and it was so filthy. No thanks to development if the city can't clean the gum all the new people it brings spit on the sidewalk. It was gross.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their project is WAY too dense and the usage too intense to be crammed up against single family homes. Period. Full stop. Anyone with any grasp of good zoning practices and that is not completely beholden to developers whose families are safely ensconced in Potomac or taken in by the mystical mantra of "smart growth" would recognize that there need to be "buffer" zones when moving from heavy duty commercial to single family homes. If the city starts losing the families and tax base of AU Park to the suburbs, we will be right back to the 80s and 90s when people felt sorry for you if you lived in the District. The city should be very wary of throwing its lot in with the transiency of apartment buildings at the cost of losing the single family home tax base.[/quote]

LOL Have you gotten into your Oldsmobile sedan and driven around the rest of the city at any point over the past decade or two? DC isn't losing its tax base and isn't losing its families either. The city is BOOMING and new DC citizens are pouring in. Tenleytown can take a Brexit view and shake a fist at the younger, far more diverse and energetic new DC citizens OR Tenleytown can try to figure out how to catch up with the rest of the city. Look at Capitol Hill, which like Tenleytown was a little left out of everything a decade or two ago, but then embraced development both on either edge of the neighborhood, but also on its central commercial streets. It now is not only a destination neighborhood for market shopping by day and eating by night, but it is absolutely booming with families and kids everywhere.

The GDS project can't solve all of the problems of Tenleytown being lost in time (and not in a good way), but hey it's a start. You're being thrown a lifeline![/quote]

Also, the older people aren't moving anywhere when they can probably walk to a Saks, Bloomingdales, and Jimmy Choo. Please.

[quote=Anonymous]Their project is WAY too dense and the usage too intense to be crammed up against single family homes. Period. Full stop. Anyone with any grasp of good zoning practices and that is not completely beholden to developers whose families are safely ensconced in Potomac or taken in by the mystical mantra of "smart growth" would recognize that there need to be "buffer" zones when moving from heavy duty commercial to single family homes. If the city starts losing the families and tax base of AU Park to the suburbs, we will be right back to the 80s and 90s when people felt sorry for you if you lived in the District. The city should be very wary of throwing its lot in with the transiency of apartment buildings at the cost of losing the single family home tax base.[/quote]

LOL Have you gotten into your Oldsmobile sedan and driven around the rest of the city at any point over the past decade or two? DC isn't losing its tax base and isn't losing its families either. The city is BOOMING and new DC citizens are pouring in. Tenleytown can take a Brexit view and shake a fist at the younger, far more diverse and energetic new DC citizens OR Tenleytown can try to figure out how to catch up with the rest of the city. Look at Capitol Hill, which like Tenleytown was a little left out of everything a decade or two ago, but then embraced development both on either edge of the neighborhood, but also on its central commercial streets. It now is not only a destination neighborhood for market shopping by day and eating by night, but it is absolutely booming with families and kids everywhere.

The GDS project can't solve all of the problems of Tenleytown being lost in time (and not in a good way), but hey it's a start. You're being thrown a lifeline!