tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17267242.post1369210288572147369..comments2024-03-27T14:57:27.470-04:00Comments on bloomingdale: HPRB Action on McMillan healthcare facility on Parcel 1: "The Board approved the final revised concept plans for the healthcare buildings"Scott Roberts of Bloomingdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13729317215189785132noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17267242.post-625692806608477082020-10-06T01:55:03.095-04:002020-10-06T01:55:03.095-04:00its not a commodity that you order by the linear f...its not a commodity that you order by the linear foot. Which is how Matt Bell offered "green space at the North end", "or the south end or a diagonal down the middle",,,mediocrity, like real talented site planning.. It is a "Great Place" from Senator McMillan s Washington Senate Parks Commission, and had real genius, that a real Capitol City plans its culture and preserves its history. The mercenary paradigm of these mediocre development conglomerates and their bought politicians has filtered down to the population and they bought it,"what is good for the corporation is good for the average person", but that is not true!! Too bad the objectivity never was permitted and all alternatives were ignored and actively suppressed. NO forums , no panel discussions, no town halls, no referendum, just pure incumbent hacks dictating and brow beating the decision., a corrupt ANC, and each city agency who's job is to protect the common good, failing us to please their powerful superiors. see Judge Glickman tell us in the Appeals Court, these subordinate agencies are fearful for their jobs. <br />Appeals Court Judge Glickman questions McMillan Mayor's Agent. Transcription of DC Court of Appeals oral arguments October 17 2018, Mayor's Agent appeal McMillan development on Office of Planning, Mayor's Agent Peter Byrne<br /> “under the thumb of one of the petitioners” (The Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, so THE MAYOR is in court and the adjudicators are her employees,, but its not fixed!!!)<br /><br />"Now he knows which side of his bread is buttered on doesn’t he"<br />" You know he can write an opinion that really does what they want, and I’ll get more of these jobs, which are really lucrative, or I can write an opinion that goes the other way, and that will be the last job I get”<br /><br /> Judge Glickman knows when the Mayor is business partner with the development conglomerate the subordinate agencies are openly compromised and their evaluation and their “greenlighting” suspect. Patterson the DC Auditor exposed the unethical business practice of the “insider deals”, "no bid contracts" , “exclusive rights agreement”, and DC Council literally exempted this crooked partner from their own contracting law/reform retroactively and proactively. VMP never has to follow the law. Bowser/Gray/ Mendelson just wrote the law as they went along for VMP. Marion Barrie’s council vote was listed “approved” for the surplus, the land theft, one month after he died, but its not fixed!<br /> With so many creative/innovative ways to incorporate services, food delivery, stores, and other adaptive re-use the whole deal has been only tailored for VMP profit, and billions of it.They will be the worst neighbors, they already have perjured, lied, and astroturfed, so kiddies you follow some real dirty folks.<br /> https://youtu.be/EwJwGr2qFrY <br />McMillan Park Plan by Prof. Miriam Gusevich at CUA<br />There is only massing of buildings on Prof. Gusevich CUA grad students plan because she wanted to show how this much development can be done in "world class" site design...imagine the buildings incorporated into the park and landscape, using the cisterns,, just like in a real world class city , not mediocrity.Daniel in brooklandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09346087266293891959noreply@blogger.com