{"id":886,"date":"2025-02-08T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/?p=886"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:08:54","slug":"chevychasecommunity-dc-zoning-commissions-vote-on-chevy-chevy-commercial-district-january-30-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/886","title":{"rendered":"[ChevyChaseCommunity] DC Zoning Commission’s Vote on Chevy Chevy Commercial District January 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This message seems to confound the availability of spaces for larger families with “affordability.”  For the first, building cods could be the problem.  I’ve heard that requiring double exits rather than just a outcome based fire safety standard makes it more difficult to design multi-bedroom units.   In any case, the solution cannot be to just impose a specific mix of unit design and price range. <\/div>\n
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On Friday, February 7, 2025 at 10:52:24 AM EST, d.c. forrd <dc4reality@gmail.com&gt<\/a>; wrote: <\/div>\n
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When Zoning Chairman Anthony Hood<\/a> says “affordable housing is a problem” in Ward 3<\/b>, the only real problem is that the housing he and the Commission, and the Office of Planning, and the Attorney General’s Office, and the Mayor, perhaps the Councilmember, or anyone else touting it — the housing they are talking about is NOT truly affordable for anyone who really needs it the most.  <\/i><\/b><\/font><\/div>\n

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That is, DC’s so-called affordable housing is out of reach<\/i><\/b> of all working-class residents making DC’s minimum wage and certainly families<\/a> because the income bar is purposely set so high as to shut them out<\/i><\/b>. <\/font><\/div>\n

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This isn’t rhetoric. The recent independent DC Auditor’s report shows these facts, which I found here — click this link<\/a>.
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Key findings from the Auditor Report on DC’s primary “affordable” housing<\/a> production program:<\/b><\/i><\/u><\/font><\/div>\n