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Apr 12, 2012

Tall Order: Officials Looking to Loosen the D.C. Height Act

The Post reports that Vince Gray, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Darrell Issa are considering loosening the Height Act that keeps buildings in D.C. short and squat when the city is running out of land.

May 22, 2011

Looking Back: The Cairo

Pretty much everyone in D.C. knows of the Cairo apartment building in the Dupont area, on 17th and Q. The tallest residential building in the city, it was responsible for the height laws now in place.

 
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