DC Office of Planning (and not DC Water!) confirms that the very unspecific DCRA raze permit for McMillan is just for the southwest corner cell

From: "Callcott, Steve (OP)"
To: "scott@scott-roberts.net"
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: DCRA's unspecific raze permit for the McMillan Sand Filtration site 

 

 

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Hey Scott –

 

DC Water only has plans and approvals for the removal of the cell at the southwest corner of the site, as per the tunnel project that they’ve shared with the community and the Mayor’s Agent.  They have no interest or jurisdiction to exceed what they have approval for.

 

Steve Callcott

Deputy Preservation Officer

DC Office of Planning

1100 4^th Street, SW, Suite 650-E

Washington, DC  20024

202-741-5247 (direct)

202-442-8800 (main)

www.preservation.dc.gov

 

 

 

From: scott@scott-roberts.net
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 11:48 AM
To: Callcott, Steve (OP)
Subject: DCRA's unspecific raze permit for the McMillan Sand Filtration site

 

Steve:

 

Greetings.  Scott Roberts of Bloomingdale here.  Please refer to the forwarded Email thread below.

 

I acknowledge all of the discussions and plans for the demolition of one or two cells in the southwest corner of the McMillan site.

 

But I am fearful, since the DCRA raze permit is not specific.  The permit, as it is stated, could apply to the entire site.  It is too broad for my comfort level. 

 

You can see that DCRA directed me to DC Water.

 

You can see that I am not receiving feedback from DC Water.

 

Might you have some information or insight here?

 

Thanks for your feedback.

 

== Scott ==

 

From: "scott@scott-roberts.net" <scott@scott-roberts.net>
To: "emanuel.briggs@dcwater.com" <emanuel.briggs@dcwater.com>
Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 3:16 PM
Subject: revisiting: DCRA raze permit for the McMillan Sand Filtration site

 

                                        

Emanuel:

 

Greetings once again.  Just plugging in from my Email last week.

 

We are still interested in the DCRA raze permit for the McMillan site, since the DCRA permit isn't too granular about the location or locations on the site where the razing will occur.

 

Hope to hear from you soon.

 

== Scott ==

 

P.S.  I see that DC Water announced the awardee for the 1st Street Tunnel project.  Excellent!

 

From: "scott@scott-roberts.net" <scott@scott-roberts.net>
To: "emanuel.briggs@dcwater.com" <emanuel.briggs@dcwater.com>
Cc: Christopher Rodousakis; "jonathan.williams@dc.gov" <jonathan.williams@dc.gov>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 12:04 PM
Subject: DCRA raze permit for the McMillan Sand Filtration site

                                                                                                  

Emanuel:

 

Greetings. See the Email thread below.  The DCRA raze permit for the McMillan site appears not to be specific.  

 

First, see this blurb from WBJ reporter Michael Neibauer which kicked off this discussion:

  

Sep 26, 2013, 10:48am EDT

McMillan raze and AvalonBay's 55 M St. NE lead permits

Michael Neibauer, Staff Reporter- Washington Business Journal

   

Straight to the permits this Thursday morning.

  

2501 First St. NW: The District will raze a "disused" brick and concrete water filtration plant. This is the McMillan property, but it's unclear from the permit what specific building will be demolished, or for that matter, whether the raze is part of the McMillan redevelopment or the Bloomingdale flood control efforts. I'd bet the latter.

 

And some of my tweets:

 

Scott Roberts ‏@ScottRobertsDC 23h

@DCRA raze permit for #BloomingdaleDC's @McMilanPark http://tinyurl.com/m8kvxta  @WashBizNeibs not sure what exactly is to be razed... errr ?

 

Scott Roberts ‏@ScottRobertsDC 23h

@dcra: the "brick & concrete" covers all 25-acres of @McMillanPark. Is the raze permit for perhaps just one cell & not the entire site?

 

                                              

Could you perhaps provide more detail than the DCRA raze permit provides?

 

Thanks.

 

== Scott ==

 

From: "Williams, Jonathan (DCRA)" <jonathan.williams@dc.gov>
To: "scott@scott-roberts.net" <scott@scott-roberts.net>
Cc: Christopher Rodousakis
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 11:25 AM
Subject: RE: ? raze permit for the McMillan Sand Filtration site ?

                                       

No problem.

 

The raze permit specifically outlines the brick and concrete of the disused water filtration plants at 2501 1^st Street NW.   Therefore any disused plants, the permit allows to be razed.  

 

When a raze permit is issued, the requestor has to provide us with a number of approval letters from multiple government agencies and utility companies (WASA, DDOE, DDOT, Pepco, etc..).  Amongst those approvals, they were required to provide us with a approval letter from Historic Preservation (which was provided).  If you have any questions or concerns regarding the approval of Historic, you will have to check with the Office of Planning.

 

Also this raze permit was obtained by WASA/DC Water.  If you have any questions regarding the project status, you will check with them. 

 

Jonathan Williams

Program Analyst

Office of Director

Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs

District of Columbia Government

1100 4th Street SW 20024

202-478-5745 (Desk)

202-442-8383 (Fax)

Jonathan.Williams@dc.gov

 

 

From: scott@scott-roberts.net
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:27 AM
To: Williams, Jonathan (DCRA)
Cc: Christopher Rodousakis
Subject: ? raze permit for the McMillan Sand Filtration site ?

 

 

Mr. Williams:

 

Greetings.  Thank you for offering to provide more information on the raze permit issued for the 25-acre landmarked McMillan Sand Filtration site in Bloomingdale.

 

Could you perhaps expand on the raze permit?

 

I would assume that the raze permit would be for just one or two cells, but perhaps my assumption is incorrect.

 

Thanks for your clarification!

 

== Scott ==

 

From: DCRA (Twitter) <notify@twitter.com>
To: Scott Roberts <scott@scott-roberts.net>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:12 AM
Subject: DCRA (@dcra) mentioned you on Twitter!

 

@CRodousakis @ScottRobertsDC @McMillanPark email me direct. to much to squeeze into a tweet. - @dcra

Scott Roberts, You were mentioned in a conversation!             Scott Roberts @ScottRobertsDC       so what exactly is the current @dcra @McMillanPark raze permit for? tinyurl.com/m8kvxta #BloomingdaleDC for the @dcwater project ? - 26 Sep       More Tweets     Chris R @CRodousakis   Follow         @dcra @ScottRobertsDC @McMillanPark How's that possible given historic designation - not to mention project only being in planning phase? - 27 Sep   DCRA @dcra   Follow       @CRodousakis @ScottRobertsDC @McMillanPark email me direct. jonathan.williams@dc,gov. to much to squeeze into a tweet.         01:12 PM - 27 Sep 13           Reply to @dcra Retweet Favorite