April 13, 2015
Lanier Heights homeowners apply to downzone neighborhood, crush pop-ups
The fight over rowhome pop-ups in one District neighborhood has landed in the lap of the Zoning Commission.
Homeowners in the Lanier Heights community, joined by their advisory neighborhood commission, have filed papers with the zoning panel to formally rezone more than 175 lots in their community, putting a permanent end to pop-ups and large-scale condo conversions.
The application comes two weeks after the Zoning Commission took its first action to downzone only D.C.’s R-4 districts, in response…