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Here's how it worked: depending on the district, a building's height could not exceed a certain ratio to the width of the street.
Depending on the district, a building's height
Remember early on, the District of Columbia, before Abraham Lincoln's presidency, the District of Columbia is actually a slaveholding jurisdiction.