WaPo article on DC pop-ups (Bloomingdale not mentioned)

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The sentiments expressed in this WaPo article mirror sentiments throughout Bloomingdale.

  

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In a city filled with pop-up loathers and lovers, D.C. ponders its mini-skyscrapers

By Ian Shapira November 28 at 7:50 PM

Inside a room of about 100 disgruntled Adams Morgan residents, Alex Dodds bravely stood up and made a confession this month to her Northwest Washington neighbors:

“I live in a pop-up,” the 30-year-old declared. “Keep your pitchforks at bay.”

Everyone at the public hearing chuckled. No one actually hoisted pitchforks at Dodds, but the majority came to vent about what they view as a fast-growing scourge in Washington neighborhoods: “pop-ups,” renovated rowhouses with additional stories that tower over adjacent homes like mini-skyscrapers.

Across the city, pop-ups appear to be increasingly generating conflicts. In one recent case, a 16th Street Heights resident said she might have to add a 23-foot smokestack on her rowhouse in order to use her fireplace, because a developer popped-up the adjacent home so that it towers over her three-foot chimney.

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The measure would reduce maximum by-right height in their neighborhoods to 35 feet. And it would bar homes from being converted into dwellings with three or more units, an option that encourages developers to add stories.

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