New 4-Plex (1715 Bolling Avenue)

The developer defended her track record — eleven properties, a successful city pilot-program redevelopment — promised careful tenant screening, and said the adjacent land-bank lot will stay a maintained side yard, not more construction.

A neighbor who owns property on the block said the applicant has failed to maintain another house there — high grass, vacancy, rodents, parking problems — and told the commission, 'We don't want more' nuisance in the neighborhood.