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I'm an Old Town resident and I'm neither rich nor a dog owner nor do I want the waterfront to be open space. I would LOVE a new and updated mix of development though that wouldn't "give me a reason to go there". Honestly, if you can't come up with a reason to come to Old Town now, I HIGHLY doubt that smacking a few exclusive hotels along the waterfront will. Hotels are NOT resident focused. Period. How do people not see this?

And I have YET to meet an Old Town resident who doesn't want people to come to our neck of the woods. And woops, is funding a free trolley to help people get around via public transportation suddenly a bad thing? Our bad. Let's cut that out so the ONLY way to get to Old Town is by car. Works SO WELL in Georgetown.

And just so I can clear it up: it's cool and encouraged to kvetch on this blog about the impact on quality of life when tour buses choke up the National Mall, one of the largest tourist attractions on the Eastern Seaboard, which is a very healthy distance from anything resembling a residential neighborhood. We can kvetch about this to the point of suggesting building a massive parking lot underneath the National Mall, right? But when actual people who actually reside in an actual residential area complain about tour buses choking up their neighborhoods, we can make fun of them and imply they're NIMBY backwards thinkers? Cool. Only if they're rich though, right? Or we assume they're rich based of an address?

by Catherine on Nov 22, 2011 4:23 pm • link • report