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Lets break down your post -- you post a study that says NEW housing in DESIRABLE areas would only provide a small amount of the citys need (because so many people want to move here) so the only logical solution is to do NOTHING? Oh and al quieda and snowden would buy up all the penthouse suites as roommates and wreak havoc on the country.
Listen -- DC needs more housing, and with people leaving suburbs for the city (tons of studies there as well) DC will need even more housing than previously stated. Right now, NOVA is the smart one picking up all the residents with tons of new highrises. Keeping limits low due to aesthetics is not a smart idea (this is why NOVA is picking up all of DCs tax revenue) DC needs housing -- it needs to stop being a commuter city. This is tough on families for many reasons.
One thing I forgot to say in my last reply to this, 1) it's Al Qaeda 2) Edward Snowden is not a terrorist and 3) have you ever been to NYC when the president is in town? They search all the skyscrapers on the route the president will drive down, and set up secret service on the rooftops of the skyscrapers. It is very hard to secure a skyscraper city.
One thing I forgot to say in my last reply to this, 1) it's Al Qaeda 2) Edward Snowden is not a terrorist and 3) have you ever been to NYC when the president is in town? They search all the skyscrapers on the route the president will drive down, and set up secret service on the rooftops of the skyscrapers. It is very hard to secure a skyscraper city.
I will spell check when you google search some of the facts you assert. Simple google search is faster than spell checking.
Actually Paris has 1 skyscraper, and there are talks to demolish it, what you are referring to is La Defense, which is outside city boundaries. Paris has no control over the jurisdiction. And the whole parent-child scenario is weak, even in areas like New York that have skyscrapers, people drive from hours away to go to work, so building skyscrapers in DC wouldn't change anything. Also, character is very important, character is what creates the feel of the city, and that is what makes people want to move there.
+2 And they hate it! Can't blame them really, it just looks.....eh. Not too attractive either. I think some Parisians be saying that the Tour Montparnasse offers the best view of the Paris skyline because 1) It includes the Eiffel Tower and 2) Not a skyscraper in sight with the exception of the beautiful La Defense skyline just outside city limits.
Actually Paris has 1 skyscraper, and there are talks to demolish it, what you are referring to is La Defense, which is outside city boundaries. Paris has no control over the jurisdiction. And the whole parent-child scenario is weak, even in areas like New York that have skyscrapers, people drive from hours away to go to work, so building skyscrapers in DC wouldn't change anything. Also, character is very important, character is what creates the feel of the city, and that is what makes people want to move there.
I never been to Paris before so I was just curious. Are those buildings in the background outside the city?
Unlike Paris, DC is nowhere near built-out and, as I've said before, has ample room for growth. Part of why I support the height act is that it has spurred development outside the CBD, which otherwise may not have taken place. Further reforms, such as ensuring that zoning isn't even more restrictive than the max height restriction in key opportunity areas and reducing the bureaucracy involved in getting development moving, are needed before any talk or action in repealing the height act.
The DC council really needs to be incentivising development in the following areas, but additionally needs to add critical infrastructure. I'm convinced they alone could absorb a significant volume of new demand, but require better and more reliable transportation options (particularly streetcars along major arterials such as Georgia, 14th, H, Benning, Rhode Island, 18th/Florida/8th and Wisconsin).
Entire length of Georgia Avenue, particularly between Florida and Kennedy
Completion of Navy Yard
Anacostia
Reservation 13
Southwest Waterfront
Completion of NoMa
Medium density infill on H and Benning
Redevelopment of the Southwest Federal District to mixed-use
Lastly, office is being overbuilt. DC's primary industries - government and law - are both in major contracting stages and moving into more efficient and high-quality space. This means a large oversupply of Class B space will be coming online shortly and will be redeveloped. DC needs to advocate or even require that some of this becomes mixed-use to add a more significant residential population to Downtown.
Actually Paris has 1 skyscraper, and there are talks to demolish it, what you are referring to is La Defense, which is outside city boundaries. Paris has no control over the jurisdiction. And the whole parent-child scenario is weak, even in areas like New York that have skyscrapers, people drive from hours away to go to work, so building skyscrapers in DC wouldn't change anything. Also, character is very important, character is what creates the feel of the city, and that is what makes people want to move there.
There are absolutly no talk to demoslish Montparnasse tower.
Demolishing Montparnasse tower would cost a lot and it would harm Paris economy, imagine a hundred of jobs in less, and a million sq ft of office space (Paris economy is much more dependant on office jobs than tourism).
Also note that Montparnasse tower is not as much hated by Parisians than what tourist guides may indicate.
There are new skyscrapers planned inside the city limit of Paris.
The construction of the new 525ft Court Hall skyscraper has began.
There are absolutly no talk to demoslish Montparnasse tower.
Demolishing Montparnasse tower would cost a lot and it would harm Paris economy, imagine a hundred of jobs in less, and a million sq ft of office space (Paris economy is much more dependant on office jobs than tourism).
Also note that Montparnasse tower is not as much hated by Parisians than what tourist guides may indicate.
There are new skyscrapers planned inside the city limit of Paris.
The construction of the new 525ft Court Hall skyscraper has began.
I never said there were serious talks, but every year a group of Parisians send a petition to city hall asking for it to be demolished. When I was in Paris a few weeks ago almost everyone I asked had negative things to say about Montparnasse. Can you blame them? It is truly horrible, sticking out like a sore thumb and taking attention away from the Eiffel Tower. Could you please post a link for the Court Hall? I looked it up and found nothing, all I found were some article from June talking about how designs were submitted for some new skyscrapers in Paris and they would be voted on this fall. Anyways, Dc has a long way to go until it is built out like Paris. So lets completely build DC out, once it is built out we should increase density, and then we can talk about skyscrapers.
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Can't blame them really, it just looks.....eh. Not too attractive either. I think some Parisians be saying that the Tour Montparnasse offers the best view of the Paris skyline because 1) It includes the Eiffel Tower and 2) Not a skyscraper in sight with the exception of the beautiful La Defense skyline just outside city limits. 
