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@SG, A 'living growing city' recognizes that not all streets can be commerically oriented if it wants to keep residents as part of the mix. It needs to keep some streets exclusively residential ... even if that residential mix includes some hotels ... and the White House.

Within a short jount from lower 16th Street you have K St, L St, Dupont Cir, Conn. Ave., 19th Street, 14th Street, 17th St, 18th St, P St, and U Street (did I forget any)... all of which are filled with bars, cafes, and restaurants. If someone can't find a bar, restaurant, cafe among the hundreds of choices on any of these streets ... or find the walk to them 'too far' ... I might suggest the problem lies more with them then with any real lack of availability. We can't be all bars, and restaurants, and cafes ... Unless we want a return to the pre-'Living City' days where places like 18th Street served as the 'entertainment districts' for the suburbs in Va. or MD. No one is proposing 'no cafes, bars, or restaurants'. It's just a matter of preserving some of the residential areas of 'downtown' so that we can truly be a 'living and growing city' ... and not just someone's entertainment district!

by Lance on Jul 19, 2010 3:43 pm • link • report

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