concept application filed for one of the VMP buildings not previously reviewed

Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:49:23 -0500
Subject: Re: VMP Parcel 2 (Jair Lynch) on the HPRB agenda for 18 December -Kirby
From: Mat Bader
To: Kirby Vining
CC: A list of Email addresses

Kirby,

From a MAG perspective, the most glaring change for the Stage 2 portion that Jair presented was a reduction in affordable units from 25 to possibly only 20.  It's unclear what the final number will be.

This issue was already brought to the ANCs attention but I do not believe has been taken up with the MAG yet.

Mat

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Kirby Vining <nulliparaacnestis@gmail.com> wrote:

I just saw this HPRB notice today for Parcel 2 of VMP development…odd, because it’s exactly 15 days from today and I thought

that 30 days notice was required.

I asked Steve Callcott why the typical

30 days notice wasn’t given.  Here’s his response:

              

Jair Lynch filed a concept application for one of the buildings that was not previously reviewed.  Please keep in mind, what you have received is the notice of filed cases, not the agenda of the meeting.  I have no doubt we will receive requests for deferral so that the ANC can have the full 30 days to review, which would push it off until January.

         

This is, I think, the Jair Lynch buildings that Jair Lynch presented to the most

recent ANC meeting, the November 18 meeting.  I’ve attached the ANC

agenda, and notice that the Jair Lynch presentation is ‘information update,’

not listed as something that would be voted on, yet there was a vote.  Two

of the Bloomingdale ANCs, including BCA president Teri Janine, voted against

this, stating that this hadn’t been brought before the community and thus the

ANC shouldn’t be voting on it.  I agree, but the vote carried. There has been no

presentation of this to the SCA, BCA, or MAG, and the ANC knew that. I do not

have  a copy of the resolution that ANC 5E passed on this, but I was there for the vote.

Again, as has happened several times in the past year, the ANC did not abide by the

ANC 5E bylaws that require presentation of developments to the relevant community

groups before getting on the ANC agenda.  This was not merely informational, a vote

was taken, and there’s a difference. 

Here’s a link that showed up on Scott’s Bloomingdale blog about

the things that Jair Lynch will present:

http://bloomingdaleneighborhood.blogspot.com/2014/11/pdf-of-last-nights-vision-mcmillan.html

-Kirby

MONTHLY PUBLIC NOTICE
December 2014

HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW BOARD MEETINGS
December 18, 2014

441 4th Street NW, Room 220 South, 9:00 a.m. 

The Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) will meet Thursday, December 18, 2014 to consider permit and concept applications for work affecting historic properties. 

NOTICE
This notice is a list of cases that have been filed by the application deadline for review by the HPRB.  Applications and plans for each case are a matter of public record and may be reviewed during business hours at the Historic Preservation Office.  The agenda of cases for the HPRB meeting(s) will be drawn from this notice.  However, some cases filed for consideration may not be included on the Board’s agenda for this month’s public meetings.  A case may be deferred at the request of the affected Advisory Neighborhood Commission for insufficient information, if additional preparation is required, or at the discretion of the staff or HPRB.  Listing on this notice does not guarantee a hearing this month.

For inquiries or to provide comments on a specific case, please contact the staff person assigned to the case.  Information or comments on a case received by the Historic Preservation Office by 3 p.m. Wednesday, December 10 will be distributed to the HPRB members in an advance mailing; comments received by 3 p.m. Wednesday, December 17 will be forwarded electronically to the HPRB members. 

AGENDA
The agenda for the meetings will be emailed to all recipients of this public notice and posted on the Historic Preservation Office website at www.preservation.dc.gov on Friday, December 12, 2014.  To receive a print copy of the staff report for a case on the agenda, please contact Bruce Yarnall at (202) 442-8835 or bruce.yarnall@dc.gov on or after December 12.

CASES FILED FOR CONSIDERATION

LANDMARK DESIGNATION HEARINGS

ANC
2-B Hill Building, 839 17th (1636 I) Street NW, Case #11-06 (Williams)
2-B Editors Building, 1729 H Street NW, Case #13-02 (Williams)

PERMIT APPLICATIONS AND CONCEPTUAL REVIEWS

ANC Historic Landmarks
2-F Real Estate Trust Company, 1333-1343 H Street, NW, HPA 14-652, revised concept/alteration of non-contributing addition (Callcott)
5-E McMillan Sand Filtration Site, 2501 1st Street, NW, HPA 15-090, concept/mixed use, multiple dwelling building with ground-level retail on north service corridor (Callcott)