tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17267242.post5243636779926531507..comments2024-03-27T14:57:27.470-04:00Comments on bloomingdale: Bertha Holliday: 4th community-wide deck over forum being held at St. Martin's Pioneer Room -- Saturday, 09-25-2021Scott Roberts of Bloomingdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13729317215189785132noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17267242.post-46250295069053886802021-09-21T06:11:11.490-04:002021-09-21T06:11:11.490-04:00Wouldn't an EL, an elevated train like in so m...Wouldn't an EL, an elevated train like in so many parts of NY serve real rapid transit up North Cap, and not even interact with street traffic, like a monorail for instance. This would join Union Station and NOMA to the hospital centers, and the Red, Yellow and Green lines, and potentially East West service on Irving or Michigan. That is called "regional planning", not "shoe horning" in residences like sardines and gobbling up and paving our needed green space. This vastly improved rapid transit connects to thousands of residential units coming to Armed Forces Retirement Home(AFRH) just north of McMillan Park(we are struggling against the DC govt. to save this park and our publicaly owned green space), so many thousands on North Cap and thousands of new residents at AFRH would not even need a private vehicle. The EL would connect to the entire world, including National Airport via metro, and serve our DC Central Park at McMillan. The Zoning was created by law, to "reduce traffic congestion", but our Zoning Commission greenlights mass increase in dangerous traffic congestion, more air pollution, and traffic literally blocks our emergency services right there at North Capitol and our medical services, Why?<br /><br />Ask Bowser and His Highness Phil Mendelson?Daniel in brooklandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09346087266293891959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17267242.post-39235700486539969102021-09-17T16:14:29.320-04:002021-09-17T16:14:29.320-04:00Where in this discussion is McMillan Park? Our 25 ...Where in this discussion is McMillan Park? Our 25 acre publicly owned green space and historic site on North Capitol, which was Bloomingdale's outdoor recreation and tree lined promenade, landscaped by Olmsted Firm for our city. The community enjoyed the outdoors and sunset and Capitol Dome views 1905 to 1941, and it was the only integrated park in DC. This belongs right here in this discussion of North Capitol.<br />Any decent city government would be planning how to save our public green space, as it masses so much housing in NOMA, RI Ave. and the 81 acres of thousands of units to come at Armed Forces Retirement Home just North.<br />Proper urban planning first brings innovative and critically missing mass transit to serve all, McMillan Park, AFRH, Brookland and the Red Line, and serve the adjacent multiple hospital centers. Thousands could live at AFRH without private vehicles, reducing traffic on North Capitol, just the opposite of where we are headed.<br />We need this DC Central Park and this is how to graciously expand housing, reduce the urban heat island effect, and offer our city and the nation, outdoor concerts, urban gardens, and to provide fresh food as that supply is endangered from California/Mexico/Chile and shipped 3 thousand miles by trucks. Right here at McMillan we can grow "Vertical agriculture and farmed fish" in the climatically stable 20 acres under ground concrete structures, that once filtered our drinking water through sand beds.<br />The Bowser plan to demolish these massive concrete chambers is simply unwise, as this is a stable safe available space , even a potential emergency shelter for tens of thousands, God forbid but "who knows", and DC Water is right now using it to reduce the devastating flooding, so God knows we need to protect our environment. So folks, no one ever regretted saving Central Park in New York 's Manhattan. Wise to keep what is good and open and green, and find many other civic benefits in adaptive re-use of this fascinating historic site, that we own.<br />Like NY we need access to the reservoir as well ,113 acres of our green space for jogging, walking and meeting our friends, picnics, music, memorials, rallies, and festivals, even outdoor schools to stop covid. Please voice your support to the City Council and join us www.savemcmillan.orgDaniel in brooklandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09346087266293891959noreply@blogger.com