The Real Reason Washington D.C. Doesn't Have Skyscrapers - Cheddar Explains 

I'm playing Cities:Skylines while watching this video 😂

haha same

A fellow map lad

Me too...

Cheddar hell yea we got another chiper in the clan

For the most part yes but there’s a huge rat problem in the city and I’m not talking about the politicians lol

What do you consider clean? Signapore is a clean city DC is not. DC is far from a clean city. DC has huge flooding issues during storms where sewage gets backed up in storm drains and houses in parts of the city, there is trash all over the National Mall during tourist season or when there are parades or festivals. And a massive rat issue.

@@Kev4Kev Washington DC is NOT dirty, also, Singapore is dirty aswell & most Asian cities are dirty

Kevin Bruh, I live in DC and it’s very clean.

@@Kev4Kev I've been to Singapore, it's not as clean as people portray it to be. It's just like any other major city in asia.

@Neel Javia Can I know where are you from?

Warsaw, you mean?

You are probably a troll

Not fully true. Some are built down hillsides below street level.

dcseain Where’s this? The only tall buildings are in Roslyn

@@dcseain That's clever

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I don't think many people do. Unless you're in the city a lot you focus your attention on the Capital and the monuments.

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thats what I was thinking

exactly what i thought...

Was thinking of the same thing...nice

Unauthorized people are not allowed on the roofs of buildings that are within visual range of the White House for that reason. The Secret Service are authorized to use lethal force if necessary.

Could be New York couldn't keep up with demand, and due to housing in the free market (or at least limited form of finance). Singapore had managed to provide affordable housing with skyscrapers.

Cedric John Llorente DC is a nicer looking city than Singapore. Do you really want DC to turn into that? Plus it would be a short term solution to an existing problem. DC’s population and demand will continue to grow no matter what buildings are there and housing won’t get much cheaper in the long run. The look and architecture of the city should be preserved in the long run, not corporatized and modernized for a temporary solution.

@@epicman004 Not necessarily. Singapore had a lot of policies aside from housing to handle the demand. Family planning, strict immigrations. Most importantly, housing is not seen as an investment, but a place to live. Singapore doesn't allow ownership of more than one unit to prevent wasted space unoccupied. Singaporeans are long-term planners; this is how they went from undeveloped to developed country in just one generation. Neither was more beautiful than the other. DC is considerably older, so they benefit from restrictions. Being the center of federal government, it is an attraction of itself, even it wasn't natural. Although, they shouldn't deny the problem of housing. Besides, space outside DC is an option, provided an easy form of transport is available. They can adopt some policies to curb the demand, although they have to consult the citizens first. Singapore is young and small. They do not have natural attractions, forcing them to be creative of housing people in a small space, and making themselves attractive. The latter is not easy due to competition from its Asian neighbors. Therefore, they innovate the concept of integrated resort: Marina Bay. Most importantly, DC is just one of the American cities, Singapore is a city-state. Singapore had a lot to loose when they screw up as the only way for Singaporeans to leave is to flee to another country. Residents of DC can flee to its neighboring cities, and still be in USA. Probably part of the reason why aesthetics isn't the main priority in the early days of Singapore?

New York and DC don't share similar economies, so using one as a cautionary tale for the other is a bit oversimplified.

@@dbclass4075 Singapore is an epitome of immigrants' greediness and desperations.

Forget roller coasters. Washington needs a soul

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Six Flags America isn’t too far from town

Josh Weiner you didn’t get the joke!!! Lol

I feel like that’s every cheddar video

it is a politic town so yeah it would had some law to stop you to.. also reason why alot of house cost more than average government employee 's salary... developer don't bother since the median high made it don't worth their time to build... once the law change they will just going to buy apartment building just to get rent...

Yeah

Yeah, me too. I literally never even realized that DC has no skyscrapers, and I go to DC a few times a year.

Lol same

256 meters=840 feet. In Minecraft, each block is a meter, look it up if ya don't believe me. Anything above 500 feet constitutes as a skyscraper.

Kenneth Novak - The surface level is Minecraft is normally between 70 and 100 blocks tho.

@@kennethnovak5972 r/woooosh

Kenneth Novak. Yeah but think of all the blocks below ground. The ground could start at a higher elevation causing the 256 block limit to be hit earlier

Yes

thats what i was thinking. I really like the uniqueness of it.

no kizzo

No, we do not. We could seriously increase the usage of our space by expanding vertically. We can make the metro much more effective by increasing population density.

I've been to DC twice and I love it! So much to see and the people are very nice and friendly.

SSI Protection yeah I kind of agree as a DC resident. It’s time that we are allowed to make decisions about our own city

They will never ever put skyscrapers up near the national mall ever..

Thank you!!!

@@mamadouaziza2536 They should not at all, PERIOD!!!!

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You must have stayed in nw

Agreed. Most beautiful city in the US!!

It makes it feel more original too

True

It has a beautiful European vibe

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Wish I could still play. Computer, steam, and the actual game are not cooperating...and no help from any of them.

Unless you have like a huge amount of assets, where the odd L3 highrise is inevitable.

리주민 what are you playing on?

@@angelyt9762 It has worked before on my computer, but mandatory steam update rendered it useless. I even uninstalled and redownloaded but no luck. And downgrading (removing update) was not an option. 😭 Steam creates an extra middleman that is not needed. It makes it to where no one takes responsibility for a refund or support.

If you have that enabled there's really no reason to do high density

XD Lol what

@@grill1person just go away with your conspiracy theories

Clickbait bro I hate that shit Keep it original

Technically it’s not. It’s a district territory. Just happen to be surrounded by the US

@@grill1person what

Although, it should consider allowing skyscrapers near the city limits if the land space is problematic. It may keep the restriction in the city center, though.

@@dbclass4075 I can work with that. The main areas of DC needs to keep its low profile but they should allow skyrises on the outside.

me too, I like the colonial look, makes it stand out

Chrispy it kinda of has more of a neo classical look along the mall and some of the business district, outside of that unbeknownst to tourists there are quite a lot of neighborhoods with victorian style rowhouses. I’d say Baltimore and Philadelphia probably have more of the colonial architecture/rowhouses.

yes exactly

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Genius dude

@@dacarter70ify has he been arrested yet?

I'll start smoking Weed When i get 420 subs why the swat team outside lol

Wouldn't be surprised if fear of snipers is an influence, actually. Ton of politicians hang in DC. Not just the president

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nothing beats new york 😉

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You are in every single comment section I go to. The great marshall seems to have a great taste in videos.

Litter in DC, no one cares or you get a little fine. Litter in Pyongyang, no one finds you. Law and order 😋

@Long Schnozzed Tribesman Bet you feel good about yourself huh? As someone who lived in DC, it was common untrue knowledge.

Me too! To avoid the president being scoped

In my city of Tainan, Taiwan, building height is limited in various concentric distances around our airport which is military controlled, but also allows domestic and international flights. (No international ones these days with the whole virus thing.) You need to take a shuttle bus from the terminal to the "skirt" to get on the plane, with strict speed limits, rumble strips and stop "signs" painted on the ground. The idea was that anti-aircraft guns needed to fire at a certain angle to be effective. I've been through this airport many times and seen bunkers with fighter planes but never noticed any anti-aircraft guns (or maybe I don't know what I'm looking for.) This building code seems to basically still be in place. This might sound a little creepy, but I still love Taiwan 100%! Take care, everyone!

Long Schnozzed Tribesman No but seriously he right

@Long Schnozzed Tribesman lmao, love how u have to like your own comment

True I think the same

it looks like Montgomery Alabama 😂

Yes

@StoneBoiii420 I Just did and didn’t see any sky scrapers so you either lied or are seeing things....

@StoneBoiii420 Uhhh.....Arlington isn’t even in the Washington DC border line unlike NY and Manhattan. And still didn’t even see sky scrapers in Arlington. What are the exact coordinates of these sky scrapers you claim to see

I'm pretty sure the same was said about San Francisco as it only started building skyscrapers in the 1980s on unused industrial areas

Right, then it'd look like every other major Northeastern city.

Why DC folks vote Woke ?

There are actually some taller buildings In the Virginia area around Reagan airport.

Too many politicians, though. Smell worse than the homeless.

@@JohnVKaravitis LMAO

DC looks more beautiful and unique in the US because it has no big skyscrapers and a lot of imposing monuments.

John Karavitis well, it was built on a swamp, meaning politicians are actually swampmonsters.

true i lived in dc area

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It's said you can judge what a society is based on by looking at its tallest structures

We don't need big monuments to banks anymore. They can work from home.

Maybe not necessarily luxurious, but tall residential buildings have advantage to house a lot of people in a small space. Hong Kong, Japan, Luxembourg, South Korea, and others have to choice but to build higher due to lack of land space.

@@dbclass4075 there are other options however they are more expensive. Like land reclaimation

@@Mira_linn Yeah, and hence building higher is often the preferred option in such case before resorting to that.

Also, talking about skyscrapers, but most buildings are only 2 or 3 stories tall. Like try 6 story buildings before you reach for the sky?

Peter most buildings downtown are at the max height of like 13 stories or whatever but the housing further away from the mall are well...houses so they’re 2-4 stories

The smaller buildings are mostly historic and well liked so it would be really unpopular to tear them down for larger buildings. The idea behind allowing skyscrapers is that less charming downtown buildings would be replaced with larger versions of the same thing or that underdeveloped land could attract development if it were zoned for skyscrapers.

@@michaellegrand1450 I live in DC and I live in what's called a Wardman--a type of building which, while very comfortable and spacious enough, doesn't have the panache--or protection--of victorian or federal style homes in historic neighborhoods. There are a LOT of homes like mine in DC. A lot of people add another story to theirs and transform the way the look. They cannot going higher than that. Effectively, they cannot go higher than about 50 ft.

@@POTBELLY15 That was my point.

The issue is more of demand and supply than the building themselves.

because people want to live there. The closer you are to lower Manhattan, the more expensive it is. Because demand and buying power. Nassau county and Newark nearby are affordable.

Think in London it's because they have less restrictions on foreigners' owning property there? So there is more speculation in the property market

People don't seem to realize how much the price per square foot goes up when you start building above 10 stories. Everything about skyscrapers is expensive, they won't fix DC's problem they'll just give the elites more properties to gobble up as investments and extra homes. The real key to DC's housing problem is adding more moderate-sized apartment buildings to North East DC but of course that would gentrify the area and force out the poor people who rent there currently so that won't please Bowser or her wealthy friends like skyscrapers would.

@@MrMattumbo Apparently, the ideal height for DC (maximum height possible while still cost-efficient) is 5 floors. But being historical city (especially Capitol Hill), there are zoning restrictions that limits building height.

@@yeezet4592 London, yes but look at Prague or Paris and you can see they placed their skyscrapers away from these historic cities

@@kiel_3222 Paris has few because of tunnels underground and the types of rock this city is built on. Praha has alot just not in the touristy part

@@yeezet4592 Barcelona has no skyscrapers either. Or Wales for that matter.

@@hemprope4326 yep

The traffic snarls make up for lack of billboards. My hometown hellhole.

I live near DC. If you think it is a large city guess again. It’s tiny

i live in DC its honestly nothing to see except we have a LOTTT of memorials but once you’ve seen one memorial you’ve seen them all.

Ian Case same

same lmao

@@hoosh1175 It is a small city.

It kinda isn't.

@@savagedragon79 it's pretty solidly part of the US, it's a district, just not a state, and if you found a video called squares vs rectangles would you say that squares arent rectangles.

Ya, it should be 'rest of usa'

It’s a district not a state, so it is part of the US but not. Lol

@@aduptuniform2647 it is defenitly part it's literally the capital

Frankfurt is pretty cool I usually take stop in that airport on the way to visit my grandparents in Slovenia

Wow yet major elevator companies are German

@@pizzasteve5825 I hate Frankfurt. Worst german city after Hannover. Hamburg and Munich are completely the wonderful opposite of Frankfurt

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9/11 was an inside job

@Dan chem dark is what the US has done to the middle east after that clownery

@Dan chem 9/11 was and inside job tho stop eating the blue pill and being so naive & gullible

Lmao fair

Lmao

Not true. The US Capitol dome is decorative and not a useable habitable or workable space for people. The Capital Dock building in Dublin is taller than any building in Washington, DC as far as livable, workable space goes. In fact Washington, DC doesn't have any buildings as tall as the 10 tallest buildings in the Republic of Ireland. Decorative domes, clock towers, bell towers don't count. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Ireland#:~:text=The%20tallest%20storied%20building%20in,79%20metres%20(259%20ft)

@@420GratefulHippie alright chill it's a joke also the dome counts

Ireland is a theocratic third world nation.

@choppa grizzly wash DC is not a municipal place in any state of the is. Therefore, it really isnt lol

It's... the literal capital of the country... of course it is.

Yeah, the old state house almost looks comical in front of huge skyscrapers

Boston had no choice as there is very little land for crowded Bostonians. In the case of Boston, no towers exist whatsoever on reclaimed swampy fill land of the Charles River and effectively makes Boston a small skyline of towers with the majority of the city and New England suburbia quite short by American big city standards (several American cities have far larger skylines than Boston).

@@johnkeller5163 Yes I understand that because I used to live there, there is too much demand for houses and skyscrapers are the perfect solution

i was looking for this as well

I said the exact same thing. Sad.

The same brother that ran the miles in some record-breaking time?

Truck Taxi no

That's right sister they sure didn't .. why am I not surprised LMAO..

An alternative could be to ease the restrictions on the very outskirts of DC and then have a series of ever restricted zones heading towards the Mall. This would retain the character of the centre of DC whilst also allowing larger developments to mix with those that encircle DC anyway.

@@cheekychappy1234 Has that ever improve a rent problem in any city?

While we don't have skyscrapers, we do have many newer ~100 ft tall high rises around where the Washington Nationals and DC United play. Every single high rise is luxury high end apartments. So even without skyscrapers, that is already happening

VeryLegitPerson many of the buildings in DC are already 100 ft tall just go along Massachusetts Ave, Connecticut Ave , K Street, North Capitol Street, L Street, M Street, H Street etc near downtown DC. 100 feet is not that high it is about 11 stories

you're forgetting that not spreading up is causing expenses higher as you spread out due to lack of space which is exactly what's happening throughout northern Virginia... yeah it might not improve the rent in DC, but it'll help at least decrease the speed of rent increases over the region to the suburbs.

I was thinking just that. When she said it was two men, I about threw my phone when she named the second as Jefferson.

@Tu51ndBl4d3 Yeah, that’s a pretty outrageous omission. This week, of all weeks.

Thankyou!!! Smh 🤔😤 any chance to write us out of history

White wash the fact that America acted like trump and never paid l,enfant, and a BLACK genius provided the rest of the plan from MEMORY!

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@Ozone ok future boy

arlington is near dc tho

@Long Schnozzed Tribesman you've been going around Commenting on everyone's stuff, you're a clown.

You make that sound like it's a bad thing.

They wouldn't put any skyscrapers near the Whitehouse but I do agree that there shouldn't be skyscrapers they don't fit in with the landscape

Plus you get a Roman style city

Yup

I love the Roman and Greek inspired buildings in DC

I went there, it felt open as opposed to Zürich, Switzerland. It felt weirdly open.

The Liamster yes it feels very grand. definitely inspired by the roman and greek foundations of democracy as well as architecture

But DC has the fattest squirrels I have ever seen in my life. And there's at least one camera in every tree. I think the squirrels had cameras under all those rolls of fat too.

Lmao in the world

@Ian Exactly Ian. I'm glad the District doesn't have skyscrapers but the modern ones along the lettered streets in the main core are uninspiring and look the same mostly. However, it is a beautiful city and much nicer than it was twenty, thirty years ago.

Among the most beautiful in the world, are we talking top 100?

Beautiful is a stretch

DC has the ugliest skyline in the world.

@@avibarr2751 Bethesda is not on the edge of DC it is atleast 2-3 miles away from the border of DC. Chevy Chase is inbetween DC and Bethesda. And there is only one building in Bethesda that could be considered a skyscrapper. You would be better off saying Chevy Chase or Silver Spring, or Arlington County.

This isn’t really congress’s decision. I live just across the river in Virginia and this is where most of the high rises and skyscrapers even are being built. DC is unique because while it’s population is quite small it’s urban area is massive with 6 million residents, so there are lots of satellite cities and clusters of modern buildings all around like in Arlington, Tyson’s, and Bethesda.

Arlington VA which is right across the River could be considered the “La Defense” of DC. All the main towers r built there and it’s literally just right across the river.

I agree. Having been there, the city really does look unique from all other large cities in America.

@Eragor the Kindhearted Skyscrapers can be residential. Although not in the level of world records, at least they can provide more housing for less space.

That's correct! A lot of people have this misconception that Washington DC is the capital of the United States when in reality, its actually a completely different country all together. Just false information being spread around the public. Its a damn shame.

You just described urban sprawl, which no, is not a very good building concept.

@@ayyy3606 Yeah as if NYC LA or CHI are any less sprawled 😂

@@hemprope4326 Outside North America, they manage to contain. That, or geography didn't gave them much choice.

@@dbclass4075 *Outside north America most cities don't even have skyscrapers at all...*

Hemp Rope lol LA is probably the most sprawled city in history, NY is doing a lot better by not accommodating to 60 yr old white men named Richard who prefer their yard to be larger than a block in manhattan. Same goes for downtown Chicago but they still got that sprawl.

There is a height restriction, but it's not because of airplanes since the planes fly over the Potomac and not directly over Arlington. I know this because my father-in-law was a pilot for Delta and flew the shuttle between NY, Boston and DC. However the height restriction in Arlington is much more relaxed than DC's especially if you look at the Roslyn skyline. Skyline looks more dramatic since Roslyn is situated on a bluff equal in height of the Key bridge.

Well, you do not want noise anyway.

There is a planning height limit that will be updated by Arlington and neighborhoods like Ballston and Rosslyn will be able to build taller. Neighbor tysons corner wants to built 600ft to 700 ft skysrapers. Is safe to say downtown DC will not change but I see places in upper northwest getting taller buildings.

Airplanes follow the Potomac river to the airport to mitigate noise over the D.C. area’s densely populated residential areas. (Also pilots commonly use rivers, highways, etc. to navigate. My dad, a WWII fighter pilot, learned to fly in rural New York State and decades later still spoke of the "Iron Compass," e.g., pilot-speak for train tracks!)

Hence the blue lights atop Arlington's tallest buildings.

lol i dont think many people will get that one

Lmao

@@MiyukiLily You're wrong

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@@lewatoaofair2522 Removed Herobrine AGAIN.

I agree, and the host is absolutely gorgeous!

Which black man?

Not just the black men

The French man didn’t quit, they fired him. They end up hiring someone else to finish the design.

DC was never meant to be a state from the beginning strictly making it the American federal seat of government with annexed land from Virginia and Maryland (later revised to reverse some land back to Virginia). The term "DC" is literally the official designation of such land as the explicit district where all other states have equal orientation (in the Senate) and proportionate representation (in the House of Representatives) with all DC city laws subject to Congressional approval. DC was never meant for anyone's residency by statute with the understanding that DC residents effectively do not have Federal representatives as that would be unfair to all other states under DC original charter. DC was historically never created to be a state of USA as a result.

@@johnkeller5163 yup. No reason for why it should be a state. It won't help the residents.

@@sm3675 it would give the residents representation in the House of Representatives and the senate

DC is a federal city, not a state. Never intended as anything else.

@@PerryDaPlatapus the egg looks like trash

Yeah. I hate the drab brick or dingy concrete, but I love stylized curtain wall glass and the glossy white tiles over concrete. Compare the former: i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--LD-IV5fT--/c_fill,fl_progressive,g_center,h_900,q_80,w_1600/19gpgcg59ydkojpg.jpg www.tracysnewyorklife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0616-1024x682.jpg To the latter: nvisionglass.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/glass-curtain-walls-1.jpg

I know Nora, was surprised to see her when I clicked on this video. Nora is a very talented woman, as a violinist and was Miss Teen America. She is much more then a pretty face. Glad to see her doing so well in a new endeavor.

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Not having skyscrapers makes a place boring to you? You can always move to NYC.

Lamont Johnson idk i think the architecture is creepy idk y. Everything looks haunted. But id never move to nyc i already havr insomnia id never sleep😂

Your not a real Washingtonian, DC had real culture before a massive of outsiders messed it up. I wish it stayed black Chocolate City for life 💯

Robert Smith lll ive lived here my whole life lmao since i was born... I cant rlly control where my parents live. But idk should i tell my dad to move back to morocco where hes from bc he isnt the right culture?

@@SophieSerfaty1997 Jeeez... No reason to kill the man like that, lmao.

Same

It's not a perfectly like a pentagram. A line is missing

Probably Cabal

Masons.

Was looking for this.

L’enfant

Honest answer. No..! Building down is very challenging compared to building up.. there are many factors that would make building down difficult. And in the city like DC... Underground buildings would pose a major threat to the city as anything can happen there and no one will be able to see..!

DC is also built on swampland. Water incursion would be a constant problem

I would live to see massive levels of underground. Some cities have this...though very limited. Some cities need, especially in the southern US (D--n 🥵🥵🥵). Include residential underground too. Coober Pedy is the most famous, i think. Residential and shopping. Its in australia. mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wabe/files/201403/ua1.jpg tupanggala.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Sakai_02.jpg vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/a/a8/Protectives_shop_ffxii.jpg/revision/latest/zoom-crop/width/240/height/240?cb=20100803001718 www.adventuresnsunsets.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CooberPedy-5-1680x1120.jpg

A lot of buildings downtown are built down to 3 or 4 floors underground but it’s usually just like rooms to host events or storage. A few hotels entrances have you walk downstairs so they don’t waste above ground space for rooms.

@@리주민 Thanks for that! Really amazing content :D I was thinking exactly like that

When I lived in Chicago I much preferred the scale of the neighborhoods I lived in vs much of downtown and other arteries which are not human-scale. And many parts of NYC like Brooklyn even feel more natural and inviting to me than any part of Chicago.

Depends on the mid rises IMHO. If I'm feeling boxed in, I want the light to emanate (signs) or go through buildings (glass) to make it feel more alive and spacious...without the deaded 100 lanes of traffic to get to the other side. Pedestrian only is preferred. No: th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.nx5AodcLLlpdMPPDNIeDswHaFj?pid=Api&dpr=3.53 No (maybe without the vehicular traffic but still a bit drab): www.mobiletownguide.com/user_images/1449510147_busy-main-street-during-summertime.jpg H-ll no: www.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Q181cdCVCUg7vH6TyuL_8gHaLH?pid=Api&dpr=3.53 Yes: yqtravelling.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/shibuya.jpg

Pumpernickel that’s great to hear! I’m actually moving to Chicago after the summer since I’m transferring to a new school. So far I’ve been looking at apartments in Logan Square and Wicker Park and its great to see how inviting the neighborhoods look. Hopefully, more cities decide to develop new housing in the old mid-rise style!

The city is so small...a skyscraper district would still ruin whatever quadrant of the city they build it in. Most native DC folks don't want skyscrapers.

Ignacio Fuentes well basing on how more and more cities are urbanizing do you see might not have much of a choice in the near future

@@Master-kh6ww The only way skyscrapers happen is if someone bribes the mayor and city council. And even then congress might not allow it. Everyone knows it's not necessary. It would just be a money grab for real estate developers. There's plenty of room to grow with the existing height limit. No one in DC wants their neighborhood ruined by skyscrapers.

Ignacio Fuentes I am saying that it has a good population when it reaches 1 million people it will simply have no choice if they don’t choose that the city will be horribly overcrowded

@@Master-kh6ww they just need to keep building more buildings with the space they have and they’ll be fine. Building skyscrapers won’t make housing prices go down, and it’s not that crowded even now.

Yeah, that argument is absolutely terrible. People build skyscrapers in areas that are ALREADY expensive. Saying that skyscrapers decrease affordability is like saying firetrucks make fires hotter. "You say we should call the firefighters for this kitchen fire, but every building I've seen with firetrucks is completely ablaze! Do you want our entire house to catch on fire?"

Cries in San Jose.

The capital of Wisconsin, Madison.. has the same height restrictions to keep the capital in view from anywhere in the city.

*federal height restrictions

Stupid madagascar movie, keeps letting me think san diego is an island

Even with some little bit higher buildings in NoVA. DC Metro has the least Tallest buildings in the Nation.

The best view has got to be from Frederick Douglass’ house

No panorama room. Around the corner from frederick douglass

Why can't the DC build a nice skyline like Denver, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Nashville or Charlotte. Because DC can't match those beautiful cities.

Match those beautiful cities? Yeah ok lol

Thats the reason why only Frankfurt has the most Beautiful skyline in Germany. The other cities especially Munich is a joke like DC just plain BORING.

That is probably not practical. DC likely has a high water table.

@@1pcfred The other obvious problem is that the swamp monsters would never leave if they built down.

Also Berlin