Wow. Our supporter turnout on Thursday night was outstanding! Looking back at the audience and seeing the sea of green was extraordinarily inspiring for our full presentation team last night. We can’t thank you enough for your participation and support of a plan that we truly feel is the best opportunity to create a beautiful open space with an 8-acre park, much needed retail and grocery options, multi-function community center with a pool, and thousands of jobs.
The Zoning Commission and those in attendance had an opportunity to see a presentation that included the Master Plan, open park space and the Community Center design. Due to the complexity of the project, the Commission asked that all individual testimony be held until the final hearing on May 13th.
That’s where you come in. We need you to help us keep the momentum going. One hearing down, three more to go. If you haven’t already, please click here to sign up to attend at least one of the remaining three zoning hearings, on May 5th, 8th and 13th.
Everyone in the community understands that this project is highly contentious. If you've been to a community meeting, hearing in the past, and or read a story in the press, you know that many have strong emotions one way or another. We need to keep our positive energy high and continue to push hard through the end of the hearings. Whether or not you can attend any of the hearings, the Zoning Commission still needs to hear from you about why you support the project. Click here to send a letter to the Commission telling them why the Vision McMillan plan will benefit your community!
We are closer now than ever before to making this project a reality. Thank you again for all your support to help us get there.
I look forward to seeing all of that green on Monday night!
Anne Corbett
Vision McMillan Partners
www.envisionmcmillan.com
Remaining Hearing dates and times:
May 5, 2014 (Monday) 6:00 p.m. - Multi-Family/Retail Building (Parcel 4) and Townhouses (Parcel 5)
May 8, 2014 (Thursday) 6:00 p.m. - Healthcare Facility (Parcel 1)
May 13, 2014 (Tuesday) 6:00 p.m. - Continuation of Hearing #1, ANC and Personal Testimony
All PUD hearings will be at held at:
Jerrily R. Kress Memorial Hearing Room
441 4th Street, N.W., Suite 220-South
Washington, D.C. 20001
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1 comment:
Monday, May 05, 2014 6:31:00 PM
This development is not a monstrosity, of concrete , paving, privatization, carbon emissions, crowding, congestion, traffic in a cul-de-sac, storm water mitigation, and destruction of sklyline sunset vistas, and historic demolition of a designated landmark.
How is it that in early 1900's, when Washington DC had much less resources than it has today, the real Senator James McMillan Plan could start to create "the emerald necklace" of extensive parks to serve all of the City. Rock Creek Park, like McMillan, was designed by Olmsted, America's premiere Landscape Architects, and we had a Central park, "Great Place", the DC govt. has relegated to obscurity, in a shameful, waste of incredible proportions.
While the rest of DC was open fields and farms, wooded, and hardly developed. But they had the foresight to provide healthy parkland to all of DC.
So now with the power and budget of a state,, and huge budget surplus, and virtually all of DC land over-developed and urbanized, we don't have the foresight to preserve all 25 acres of McMillan? As a real park, like Meridian Hill, saving McMillan will advance the "emerald necklace" as developers and their lackeys in govt. gobble up the little remaining open space, for incredible profit. To reduce the heat island effect, and reduce DC carbon emissions, for a cooler, breezy , open space, we need our park! We so desperately must preserve McMillan which is part of private development. The water project wasn't to help the Bloomingdale neighbors homes from sewage flooding. the water project is to keep the DEVELOPMENT JUGGERNAUT rolling along.
Private streets and 3000 parking spaces. And the subversion of even our sincere opposition. Our own tax money is spent on, an "astroturf", fake grass roots campaign of contrived support, from PR firm Jamie Fontaine from Baltimore.
The government of the District of Columbia is already a worldwide embarrassment, and all our recent convicted felons on the City Council had a part, and oversight of the VMP plan, with city officials swinging in and out of the revolving door, back and forth from govt. to VMP's legal hot shots, Holland and knight. Jeff Miller the Deputy Mayor for Real Estate, our mayor's manager for the VMP monstrosity, came right from Vice President of Real Estate at the main development partner Trammel-Crow...
How did the District Government have the arrogance to spend $250,000 a year on cutting a useless lawn on the site, but never spent a dime on preparing the site for re-access for the community for almost 30 years! This govt. would have made this a showplace of historic preservation and community recreation had it just been located in the white, upper income areas of DC. Blatant racism, and economic class discrimination, as plain as the nose on your face! To spend $250,000 a year, which is $1000 a day, but not to spend a dime to secure any minor hazards, and make the 25 acres safe to play, and picnic and enjoy the sunset vistas. Were we ever abused by this corrupt govt? The people's requests to re-open the park after WWII, was denied. Recently, Jeff Miller of the Deputy Mayor's office even terminated the perfectly safe tours run by BNCA, John Sallati, when 100's of DC residents were enthralled by the fascinating 20 acres of underground water filtration cells, and support for the preservation of the park was increasing.
The record of malfeasance of office by successive administrations has been so abominable as to preclude the district from ever being allowed to do what is happening now. A humongous money driven, greenhouse gas emitting, traffic congesting, monstrosity development, a private party to control the decisions and the future.
The "surplussing land disposition", a billion dollar give- away of your public assets to a private development conglomerate by a mayor elected by massive electoral fraud.
Fight global warming, for your own healthy recreation space for your families. STOP THE RE-ZONONING!
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