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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But DC Government shows a lot that it's management capacity is weak. Baldwin Apartments on H Street NE; 37 apartments, 100% affordable, over ground floor retail and building amenities. Obviously, DC itself has successful examples of doing this, although more with replacing the civic asset rather than including it going forward.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

Mayor’s Order 2020-054 (District residents must "stay in their residences except to perform essential activities, engage in essential business, provide or obtain government services, or engage in certain authorized recreational activities not involving close contact with other persons"); N.Y. Protravel Int'l, Inc. , 2d 743, 752, 746 N.Y.S.2d

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The unintended consequences of converting office buildings to housing: the need for public safety; schools; amenities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It had been happening for decades (" Having a Longer View on Downtown Living ," Eugenie Birch, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; Get Urban!: Unkempt areas aren't places where people want to live (" Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016). Center cities can be pretty dirty.