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Bill, I'm specifically referring to the following:

These changes will help older residents age in place, help newer residents afford to live and stay in DC, encourage more retail, and make streets safer.

Perhaps we're arguing over poor verbiage. I interpret "older residents" as seniors since the next portion of the sentence is allowing them to "age in place." That's a strange choice of words if it's meant to include a 20-something who has been in the city their entire life.

I'm not opposed to making the city better or even updating zoning codes, but whether by oversight or omission the post did not include residents who are not new to DC or families. Those are the groups likely affected the most by changes and the groups that have the greatest fears (affordability, displacement, services, etc.). Those groups should explicitly be mentioned if the hope and intent is to move people to support.

by selxic on May 16, 2012 2:09 pm • link • report

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