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We coul d solve the problem if we put the screws to owners of vacant and dilapidated properties. But every time the city does that, people complain. After all, my cousins friend got put the list and was hit with a big tax bill and had to write a letter to get off of it.

Then there's the issue with "evil developers". Everyone knows that the biggest problem to hit DC between 1990 and present is that developers have undertaken projects that have lured middle-class residents in from the suburbs. And while blight is certainly not optimal, the only thing worse is having commercial development.

So we're stuck with conflicting emotions: on the one hand vacant and dilapidated properties are destroying our neighborhoods; on the other redeveloping those properties risks changing the nature of those neighborhoods.

Maybe we should just "punt", raze them, and put up a practice facility for a local professional sports team.

by oboe on Mar 21, 2012 5:02 pm • link • report

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