Why you shouldn't trust the FBA

Because they're greedy hypocrites, of course. I dug this up:

The Columbia Condominiums, to be located on L Street between 24th and 25th streets, is being built on the former site of the Columbia Hospital for Women. The old hospital is being renovated and expanded to make way for a 350,000-square-foot building, said Price, who oversaw the approval of the project.

Members of community groups, who have long accused GW of destroying Foggy Bottom's residential character, said the buildings will be positive for the neighborhood.

"The community has worked very hard to get neighborhood-serving retail and residential property," said Richard Price, a member of the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission, which makes zoning recommendations to the city. "We want our neighborhood to look more residential and not like a campus or an office park."

(Foggy Bottom Association President Ronald) Cocome said his organization lobbied heavily with the city for the approval of the Columbia project's rezoning and construction permits.

"It was one of the few developments that we wanted to have happen (in Foggy Bottom) in the last five or six years," he said.

The ANC is essentially an arm of the FBA. Why are they perfectly happy to approve and lobby for this development, while objecting vociferously to a nearly identically-aimed project by GW? Well, that's simple:

In September, the project's developer, the Trammell Crow Company, paid the Foggy Bottom Association $2.4 million for use of the historic land previously zoned for hospital use only.

Hmm.