On Mar 17, 2016, at 9:10 PM, Bertha Holliday wrote:
TESTIMONY OF JAIR LYNCH'S MIXED USE BUILDING AND ITS
SENIOR CITIZEN AFFORDABLE UNITS (ZC Case # 13-14B)
After
reading the developer's submission for this case, I requested that the record
for this case be re-opened so that I might submit testimony. The request
was granted and I submitted the attached testimony.
As
expressed in my written testimony, I am primarily concerned that it is
proposed that the affordable (50% to 60% AMI) senior citizen units and market
rate units be located
in separate parts of the building, each with separate entrances, lobbies,
elevators and mechanical penthouses. I believe such configuration is
suggestive of social-economic and racial segregation. However, I could
find no rationale or justification for this configuration in the developer's
documents.
Another
person, Andrea Rosen, submitted testimony focused on this issue with a more
legal perspective To read it, Google "DC IZIS" Then insert the
case number (13-14B) and click; then click on that case number; go to the
2nd page of 'case documents'; then click on document 43.
If
you share Ms. Rosen's and my concern about possible segregation in the parcel 4 mixed use (retail & residential), multi-family building, please
contact me by phone or email, as noted below.
--
Bertha
G., Holliday, PhD & Associates, LLC
Independent
Consultant (Diversity Assessment, Planning, Impleentation & Evaluation)49 T Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-491-3996
Commissioner,
ANC 5E07
Washington,
DCwww.berthaholliday.com
5E07@anc.dc.gov.
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