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Wallach development isn't actually touching any of those historic rowhouses.

The proposed height will affect that whole street ... drastically. Afternoon light will be affected for all neighbors on that street (and those on the north side of T Street in that block), and privacy will be severly affected in the backyards of more than a handful of houses. Wallach Street won't be charming, human-scale Wallach Street anymore. It'll be a literal appendage to a tall building more appropriate to a dense suburban center like Crystal City, than to a 19th century neighborhood 'where everyone knows your name'. Honestly, if you think about ... what most attracts people to neighborhoods like these is that they really are 'small towns in the city'. Living in them you enjoy the best of both worlds of both 'being in the middle of everything' AND 'knowing all your neighbors and grocers and professional people, etc.' That's really the magic of places like Dupont and Logan and Capital Hill. And that's why everyone wants to live there. But if you start building buildings that are more above the neighborhood than a part of these neighborhoods, they're going to lose the very thing that makes them special.

by Lance on Jul 11, 2011 5:04 pm • link • report