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Ward3Vision
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Ward3Vision
@Ward3Vision
Ward3Vision is an active group of residents working to ensure new development is positive and forward-thinking.
WashingtonDC Присоединился Haziran 2011
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Not density OR trees. Density AND trees.
Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth
Shared via the Urban Truth Collaborative. Check out our website. urbantruthcollective.com
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Hidden away in the lower level of Chevy Chase Pavilion (5335 Wisconsin Ave.) is VUK Pinball. There are dozens of pinball machines one can play, all one floor below the new Trader Joe’s.
#VUKPinball #FriendshipHeights
#FriendshipHeightsDC
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We had an amazing turnout yesterday. Proof that residents want the city to build more homes and lower costs!
L C@CJohnStella
Looks like 50-75 people at the DC YIMBY rally before the Office of Planning townhall
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@Aden_Yacobi @mattyglesias Its not enough but its not insignificant-tallest building at the Tenleytown Metro is 6 stories/65 ft & most lots are covered by surface parking & 1 story retail.But the greater heights incentive replacing marginal older buildings & get you over hump on steel construction costs.
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@mattyglesias This is still peanuts. Buildings up to the height limit around stations is good but that’s not going to change much. Look at Cleveland, they just finished a whole process to have 45 ft heights. FLUM change would allow up to height act but actual zoning wouldn’t change.
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He’s right —>
Kenyan McDuffie@kenyanmcduffie
My Full statement on the Office of Planning’s draft Future Land Use Map. Rent in DC is still too expensive. Owning a home is still out of reach for too many of our residents. Making it easier to build more housing is essential to solving those problems. Unfortunately, the draft future land use map released this week by the Office of Planning is simply insufficient to the task. dc2050.dc.gov/pages/draft-fu…
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Incredible. @OPinDC missed the mark by so far that nearly every DC ward “change areas” board had more comments than dot ratings.
The people want actual world-class vision for our 2050, not capitulation to the status quo.
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What's the status of the different development projects in Friendship Heights?
UrbanTurf has an overview - both for the 3 projects on the DC side of the border and for the 2 projects on the Maryland side of the border.
#FriendshipHeights
dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/…
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land value tax is the most elegant policy nobody talks about. tax the land, not the building. suddenly there’s no penalty for building up, no reward for sitting on an empty lot, and the parking crater becomes more expensive to maintain than the apartment building it’s been blocki
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@Commof100DC Come on seriously? There were years of very public process for both Connecticut & Wisconsin Avenue that culminated with a very public hearing. I guarantee every single person who is complaining about process is on attendee logs for public meetings & submitted testimony.
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OP's public participation deliberately excludes the public and is blatantly undemocratic, as demonstrated by W3 Conn Av/Wisc. Ave upzoning where CM Frumin had to intervene to allow the public to be heard. Be heard. Attend the OP Comp Plan, Sat. Session, 11 am MLK Library
DC YIMBYs 🏗@dcyimbys
And join us at a rally in front of MLK at 11 to send a message to their bosses that we don't want a generation of rising prices, displacement, and exclusion. x.com/i/status/20346…
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every neighborhood that fights new apartments eventually complains about rising rents and labor shortages and closing restaurants and they never once connect these three things. you banned the housing and the workers left and the café closed. this is a mystery only to you
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What we've heard about yesterday's workshop is that OP staff were caught off guard by how many people said they didn't upzone enough. Show up Saturday and tell them again!
DC Office of Planning@OPinDC
Thanks to the folks who were able to make it to last night’s DC 2050 workshop at the MLK Library. We had many productive conversations and gathered a lot of feedback. If you weren’t able to make it to the workshop, we are holding a workshop this Saturday: lnkd.in/em6xDzv8
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Proposed Future Land Use Map is out from @OPinDC. Moderate density proposed for only half of Cleveland Park? Need to repurpose those "Stop the Split" signs. Don't build a wall of exclusion along 34th St. Let's welcome more neighbors from Wisconsin Ave to Connecticut Ave!
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Someone in the Bowser Admin looked at this area *directly across the street from a Metro station* and said "Anything above 4 stories should be illegal".
They really don't want Target to even think about coming back.
CP Smart Growth@cpsmartgrowth
Proposed Future Land Use Map is out from @OPinDC. Moderate density proposed for only half of Cleveland Park? Need to repurpose those "Stop the Split" signs. Don't build a wall of exclusion along 34th St. Let's welcome more neighbors from Wisconsin Ave to Connecticut Ave!
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@capitalcommnews Better late than never.
There is a lot of parking - where the heck is all this supposed housing going?
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Using public meetings as a gauge of public opinion is tempting but research shows these are fundamentally anti-democratic processes designed to empower NIMBYs.
When you ask representative samples of Americans what they want, it's more housing, more transit, safer streets.
Tobin Stone 🌐@tobinjstone
Bike lanes are probably the yimby/urbanist issue where the activists are most disconnected from the general public, not just in DC, but everywhere I’ve been. And in the case of DC, where public transit is so good, they probably aren’t a hill worth dying on.
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The Ladybird development project at 48th and Yuma Streets in AU Park has more than a year before the construction work is done.
When finished (in 2027?), the long-awaited project will add 234 apartments and homes, and a small grocery store, to the neighborhood.
#AUPark
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Housing and rent prices collapsed in Austin and people still pretend building housing isn’t the solution to affordability.
Nick Gerli@nickgerli1
It's actually never been cheaper to rent in Austin, TX. The Rent/Income ratio across the metro has dropped to 18.3% - the lowest on record (going back at least 20 years). Landlords are aggressively cutting rents at a time when incomes in Austin keep rising. The typical rent is down to $1,565/month. While the median income is up to $100k. Making Austin the cheapest city to rent relative to income.
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