Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:44 PM
Subject: Announcing: Crispus Attucks Park Film Festival, This September!
Subject: Announcing: Crispus Attucks Park Film Festival, This September!
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Friday, August 30, 2019
starting one week from today: Crispus Attucks Park September Friday movies !
From: Crispus Attucks Park <info@crispusattucksparkdc.org>
Thursday, August 29, 2019
revel in Art All Night's after-dark celebration of local art, music and small business -- Saturday, 09-14-2019
See this tweet:
Calling all night owls! 👀🦉Revel in this after-dark celebration of local art, music, and small business. Save the date: ▶️September 14.◀️ @ your friends. #StayOutLate and discover the undiscovered. #dcafterdark #afterhoursdc #202creates @MayorBowser pic.twitter.com/78uU5MdclJ— Art All Night (@DCArtAllNight) August 28, 2019
Cookie Day! Free Cookies at Big Bear this Friday after School (after 3pm)
IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL WEEK....
let's celebrate
FREE COOKIES FOR KIDS
THIS FRIDAY | AUGUST 30th
3:00 pm - close
(while supplies last)
crosswalk at 1st and Thomas St NW
See this tweet:
@DDOTDC @DDOTDCDirector @CM_McDuffie #bloomingdaledc @dcwater thanks for crosswalk at 1st & Thomas. Signs asking drivers not to block it would be excellent because this is the view every morning. pic.twitter.com/hZ83c92x7b— Gwen Rubinstein (@gwenrr) August 29, 2019
tonight in Bloomingdale: DefRealComedy at Hopscotch Bar, free live music at Boundary Stone, Bill's sourdough bread at Red Hen
See these tweets:
TONIGHT! #DC 's best comedy showcase is back at @HopScotchDCBar in #bloomingdaledc— DefRealComedy (@DefRealComedy) August 29, 2019
Showtime 8:00
FREE!#DCcomedy#DefinitelyRealComedy #HumansTellingJokes#DCfree#DCevents#ThingsToDoDC #ComedyPromo #FreeDC #EventsDC #FreeComedy#thirstythursday https://t.co/C0BKuy5YrB pic.twitter.com/ltlItZNEHN
It's the last Thursday of the month and that means Free Live Music from our Artists in Residence! If you've been feeling blue and all you need is a little ride on the salsa funk express to get right, come on down!https://t.co/MOlaF9GY6G— Boundary Stone (@BoundaryStoneDC) August 29, 2019
Our bread service with cultured butter, sea salt, and radishes featuring Bill's Sourdough Bread from @bakedandwiredDC pic.twitter.com/YJenayBh0a— The Red Hen (@RedHenDC) August 29, 2019
five weeks from today: Common Good City Farm's "A Night on the Farm" ANOTF annual gala fundraiser at the farm
See this Common Good City Farm Facebook post:
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Bloomingdale resident Natalie Hopkinson solicits your participation in "Communicating Across Cultures" -- Wednesday, 09-04-2019
See this 08-28-2019 message from Bloomingdale resident Natalie Hopkinson:
Thanks so much for posting this Sept. 4 event!
We still need participants who are DC residents.
Do you think you could post again tomorrow before folks leave town?
We recorded this short 1/2 minute video explaining the goals of the discussion [embeded below also for you!].
And here is the link again for RSVPs.
Thanks so much for posting this Sept. 4 event!
We still need participants who are DC residents.
Do you think you could post again tomorrow before folks leave town?
We recorded this short 1/2 minute video explaining the goals of the discussion [embeded below also for you!].
And here is the link again for RSVPs.
three weeks from today: BZA hearing on MiCasa's Barnett-Aden mixed-use project at DHCD's Florida & Q St NW site
Here is the link to this BZA hearing for MiCasa's Barnett-Aden mixed-use project across from the Joe Mamo lot.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
WBJ post: DMPED indicates that no demolition is underway at the McMillan site
Click on the link to read the entire Washington Business Journal article.
Opponents of the long-stalled McMillan Sand Filtration Plant redevelopment are furiously insisting that demolition has started at the site — but District officials say that is not the case.
District officials insist there's no demolition work underway at McMillan site
Opponents of the long-stalled McMillan Sand Filtration Plant redevelopment are furiously insisting that demolition has started at the site — but District officials say that is not the case.
Activists fighting the project, one of the most delayed development efforts in D.C.
history, spotted construction equipment at the McMillan property last week and
began circulating emails and news releases claiming that it marked the
beginning of efforts to tear down historic buildings on the 25-acre, city-owned
property at Michigan Avenue and First Street NW.
Opponent Friends of McMillan Park said it
asked for a court injunction aimed at blocking any demolition work on the site,
arguing that any work should be delayed until its copious legal challenges are
fully resolved. The D.C. Court of Appeals issued a key ruling in July that resolved one
of the largest outstanding legal obstacles to the project, but opponents have
appealed that decision.
Yet Chanda Washington, a spokeswoman for D.C.’s
Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, is adamant
that the activity on the site has nothing to do with any demolition work.
...
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Save McMillan Action Coaltion: "McMillan Park Appeals Cases Survive OAG Karl Racine's Request for Dismissal; Mayor Begins Park Demolition in Violation of Court Ruling"
From: WARD5@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2019 12:55 PM
To: Ward 5 Yahoo Group; Woodridge 5B Yahoo
Group ; EdgewoodDC@yahoogroups.com;
Eckington@yahoogroups.com; press@dc4reality.com
Subject: [WARD5] PR: McMillan Park Appeals Cases Survive OAG Karl
Racine's Request for Dismissal; Mayor Begins Park Demolition in Violation of
Court Ruling
"We can't understand DC planning officials on this one at all. There are cities around the world preserving old beautiful industrial sites, restoring them, adaptively re-purposing them, and seeing them become successful public havens welcoming tourism, generous economic activity, and creative placemaking that brings social uplift for people of all backgrounds," said Chris Otten, longtime McMillan Park Supporter and member of Lincoln's Cottage Friends. "Here the waterworks are second to none in a fascinating subterranean aesthetic and the above ground sand bins and regulators that peer across grand vistas to all major landmarks in the city. It is an incomparable gem on the East Coast that the Mayor wants to throw in the trash just to build more expensive condos. We will fight this all the way!"
Despite the recent Court ruling keeping the Petitioners appeals alive, which thus prevents demolition from occurring at present, Mayor Bowser has violated the Court ruling by storming the site with demolition equipment that has already peeled away and destroyed some of the turf that sits on top of the underground historic waterworks porticos. Photos taken on Monday, August 26, 2019, depict the start of demolition work at the site.
DC for Reasonable Development, convener of the Save McMillan Action Coalition has a emergency gathering at the Park on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 27, 2019. https://www.facebook.com/events/1309877942513784/
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To: Ward 5 Yahoo Group
Subject: [WARD5]
PRESS
UPDATE August 28, 2019
Contact Grace McClain, SMAC.DC@gmail.com, (202) 656-3012
McMillan Park Appeals Cases Survive OAG Karl Racine's Request for Dismissal; Mayor Begins Park Demolition in Violation of Court Ruling
Washington, DC -- On August 27, 2019, the DC Court of Appeals Acting Chief Judge, Stephen Glickman, denied DC's Office of Attorney General, Karl Racine's request to dismiss the appeals of several DC residents who have challenged the destruction of McMillan Park. See attached order.
Melissa Peffers, Cynthia Carson, Daniel Wolkoff, Jerome Peloquin, Chris Otten, Linwood Norman, and James Fournier have been waiting for this decision since filing numerous replies in July in response to Racine's Motion to Dismiss the appeals. The Court denied Racine and has asked appellants for opening legal pleadings in the next month. If they do not submit an opening brief, the case will be dismissed.
Petitioners
are seeking review of the decision of J.
Peter Byrne, the DC Mayor's Agent on Historic Preservation, who approved
the demolition of most of McMillan's Park historic resources, including nearly
all of the one-of-a-kind underground water works. Contact Grace McClain, SMAC.DC@gmail.com, (202) 656-3012
McMillan Park Appeals Cases Survive OAG Karl Racine's Request for Dismissal; Mayor Begins Park Demolition in Violation of Court Ruling
Washington, DC -- On August 27, 2019, the DC Court of Appeals Acting Chief Judge, Stephen Glickman, denied DC's Office of Attorney General, Karl Racine's request to dismiss the appeals of several DC residents who have challenged the destruction of McMillan Park. See attached order.
Melissa Peffers, Cynthia Carson, Daniel Wolkoff, Jerome Peloquin, Chris Otten, Linwood Norman, and James Fournier have been waiting for this decision since filing numerous replies in July in response to Racine's Motion to Dismiss the appeals. The Court denied Racine and has asked appellants for opening legal pleadings in the next month. If they do not submit an opening brief, the case will be dismissed.
"We can't understand DC planning officials on this one at all. There are cities around the world preserving old beautiful industrial sites, restoring them, adaptively re-purposing them, and seeing them become successful public havens welcoming tourism, generous economic activity, and creative placemaking that brings social uplift for people of all backgrounds," said Chris Otten, longtime McMillan Park Supporter and member of Lincoln's Cottage Friends. "Here the waterworks are second to none in a fascinating subterranean aesthetic and the above ground sand bins and regulators that peer across grand vistas to all major landmarks in the city. It is an incomparable gem on the East Coast that the Mayor wants to throw in the trash just to build more expensive condos. We will fight this all the way!"
Despite the recent Court ruling keeping the Petitioners appeals alive, which thus prevents demolition from occurring at present, Mayor Bowser has violated the Court ruling by storming the site with demolition equipment that has already peeled away and destroyed some of the turf that sits on top of the underground historic waterworks porticos. Photos taken on Monday, August 26, 2019, depict the start of demolition work at the site.
DC for Reasonable Development, convener of the Save McMillan Action Coalition has a emergency gathering at the Park on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 27, 2019. https://www.facebook.com/events/1309877942513784/
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WBJ post on NFL tight end Vernon Davis participation in the 150 S Street NW Gloriana development project
Click on the link to read the entire Washington Business Journal post:
A new route for NFL tight end Vernon Davis: D.C. real estate development
Vernon Davis, left, and Tom
Kadida, celebrated the groundbreaking of Gloriana, an eight-unit townhouse
project in D.C.'s Bloomingdale neighborhood on Aug. 16.
While better known for his role as a tight end for
Washington's NFL team, Vernon Davis is trying out a new set of skills
he hopes will leave a more enduring mark on the District's Bloomingdale
neighborhood: real estate development.
Davis is part of the team that broke ground
earlier this month on Gloriana, an eight-unit townhouse project being developed
on the site of the former Medhane Alem Eritrean Church at 150 S St. NW. The
D.C. native is an investor in the project, being developed by a team including
Kadida Development Group, United Investments and Alliance Development Co. as
the project's general contractor.
A Dunbar High School grad and former Maryland
Terrapin standout, Davis has dabbled in real estate investing since 2015, and
he was even pitched to put money into the troubled Fifth and
Eye project in D.C.'s Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood. He was
attracted to the church redevelopment for the chance to be a part of something
being created from the ground up.
...
free live music with Cocina Collective at Boundary Stone this Thursday, 08-29-2019
See this tweet:
Thursday! Free live music from Boundary Stone's Artists in Residence, Cocina Collective - a heady, latin-infused brew of r&b and afrobeat. https://t.co/MOlaF9pmI6— Boundary Stone (@BoundaryStoneDC) August 26, 2019
WUSA9 story: "Legal battle over future McMillan Park in DC continues"
Click on the link to read the entire WUSA9 article and to watch the video story.
A Bloomingdale resident speaks in favor of the development project, while Stronghold's Kirby Vining speaks about a potential injunction.
Author: John Henry
Published: 11:37 PM EDT August 26, 2019
Updated: 11:53 PM EDT August 26, 2019
WASHINGTON — Neighbors continue to battle over what should happen to a historic site in the heart of the District.
A Bloomingdale resident speaks in favor of the development project, while Stronghold's Kirby Vining speaks about a potential injunction.
Legal battle over future of McMillan Park in DC continues
Some neighbors want a new mixed-use development to be built on the site, but others continue to block the plans.Author: John Henry
Published: 11:37 PM EDT August 26, 2019
Updated: 11:53 PM EDT August 26, 2019
WASHINGTON — Neighbors continue to battle over what should happen to a historic site in the heart of the District.
McMillan Park, at the corner of Michigan and North Capitol
avenues, is slated to be redeveloped into a medical facility, community center
and park.
The old sand filtration site also sits on the National Register of
Historic Places.
About a week-and-a-half ago, heavy construction equipment was spotted on the
property leading some locals to believe parts of the park would soon be demolished.
"We believe that it is a court matter and we should bring
this to the attention of the court because their instructions are not being
abided by," said nearby resident Kirby Vining.
...
McMillan site demolition activity: Brookland resident Daniel Wolkoff’s letter to Deputy Attorney General Fisher and OP Senior Counsel Lieb
From: Daniel Wolkoff
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 10:35 PM
Subject: Brookland resident please post on Bloomingdale
now nobodyhomeupstairs will really think i'm crazy!
August 26, 2019 Daniel Goldon Wolkoff pro se petitoner 18-AA-357 and 18-AA-500 and 18-AA-501
Deputy Attorney General Fisher and OP Senior Counsel Lieb,
attached please see today's photos of demo equipment operating at "protected" McMillan Sand Filtration Site historic district.
thank you for replying to my concern that VMP/DMPED are violating the DC Court of Appeals decision excerpted below. The DCCA said no demo until all cases and
" any other obstacles to final building permits" are cleared and this court decision does not allow demolition of our park, historically protected McMillan Park, until pending cases are adjudicated (and common sense prevails).
please see page 52 of DCCA decision on Friends of McMillan Park vs Mayor's Agent Peter Byrne(DMPED) petition for review of appeal:
"Thus, as long as legal obstacles to the completion of the entire project remain, demolition of historic structures on the Filtration Complex will not be consistent with the purposes of the Historic Preservation Act. One remaining legal obstacle is the on-going appeal of the Zoning Commission’s approval of the PUD application for the project. Until that appeal and any other obstacles to the applicant's ability to complete the project are resolved, the applicants may not commence demolition.”
https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/18-AA-357.pdf
Moreover, the Historic Preservation Act ensures that demolition cannot begin until Building permits have been issued, which is impossible since the overall project and at least two parcels still need second-stage zoning approvals.
A group of pro se petitioners is still pending in its appeal. We were not dismissed by A.G. Racine, as he tried so hard, but we now have received our briefing schedule from DCCA for 30 days from today.
We are making this effort to enforce Historic Preservation of a National and DC Registered site, a Historic District, and save an environmentally beneficial PUBLICLY OWNED green space that all DC residents desperately need. We do not need VMP/DMPED's monstrous private profit "McMillan Town Center" or the 20,000 to 30,000 more automobiles on polluted N. Capitol every day, or 24,000 additional mass transit users with no metro. Or to continue to suffer the danger of traffic blocked ambulances and firetrucks hopping the median and plunging into on coming traffic, very frequently, do not need that!. As the 24,000 projected mass transit users will require 600 polluting buses a day, to ferry them to the Brookland Metro, less than 1 mile away, officially not walk-able, we really don't need that either.
As I"m sure you know that proper urban planning brings in mass transit, before rampant massive over-development. We have seen Office of Planning is not professional nor academic urban planners, just 'shoe horns" for massive over-development. Not your problem right!
I have one question for you, my "public servants", my employees, one simple question, other than "you need to help"
the DC government and its development conglomerate "partners" to abide by the LAW!
please do not misunderstand the frustration I suffer by this Quixotic effort, its bad.
I appreciate the call back very much, please don't get me wrong, but you try some time to go up against this unethical cabal and private profit juggernaut, with our very low income and numerous responsibilities, like my job.
So, please answer this simple question:
Does the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have a "statute of limitations"? Is there a five year limit on a violation of constitutional rights?
I can be reached at 202-232-8391, Daniel Goldon Wolkoff. If you would like to actually learn about this issue, and meet the good citizens who are trying against massive odds, to preserve the historic park and all its environmental and civic benefits, for all our citizens and visitors alike, please join us, we welcome you and all our other "employees".
Tuesday night 8/27 at Lamond-Riggs library 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE
6:00 to 8:30 P.M. I would love to share more with you at this meeting of our community groups.
thank you, and truly your assistance is greatly appreciated, Daniel Goldon Wolkoff
--
Daniel Goldon Wolkoff
McMillan Park Conservancy
1231 Randolph St. NE
Washington, DC 20017
202-232-8391
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 10:35 PM
Subject: Brookland resident please post on Bloomingdale
now nobodyhomeupstairs will really think i'm crazy!
August 26, 2019 Daniel Goldon Wolkoff pro se petitoner 18-AA-357 and 18-AA-500 and 18-AA-501
Deputy Attorney General Fisher and OP Senior Counsel Lieb,
attached please see today's photos of demo equipment operating at "protected" McMillan Sand Filtration Site historic district.
thank you for replying to my concern that VMP/DMPED are violating the DC Court of Appeals decision excerpted below. The DCCA said no demo until all cases and
" any other obstacles to final building permits" are cleared and this court decision does not allow demolition of our park, historically protected McMillan Park, until pending cases are adjudicated (and common sense prevails).
please see page 52 of DCCA decision on Friends of McMillan Park vs Mayor's Agent Peter Byrne(DMPED) petition for review of appeal:
"Thus, as long as legal obstacles to the completion of the entire project remain, demolition of historic structures on the Filtration Complex will not be consistent with the purposes of the Historic Preservation Act. One remaining legal obstacle is the on-going appeal of the Zoning Commission’s approval of the PUD application for the project. Until that appeal and any other obstacles to the applicant's ability to complete the project are resolved, the applicants may not commence demolition.”
https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/18-AA-357.pdf
Moreover, the Historic Preservation Act ensures that demolition cannot begin until Building permits have been issued, which is impossible since the overall project and at least two parcels still need second-stage zoning approvals.
A group of pro se petitioners is still pending in its appeal. We were not dismissed by A.G. Racine, as he tried so hard, but we now have received our briefing schedule from DCCA for 30 days from today.
We are making this effort to enforce Historic Preservation of a National and DC Registered site, a Historic District, and save an environmentally beneficial PUBLICLY OWNED green space that all DC residents desperately need. We do not need VMP/DMPED's monstrous private profit "McMillan Town Center" or the 20,000 to 30,000 more automobiles on polluted N. Capitol every day, or 24,000 additional mass transit users with no metro. Or to continue to suffer the danger of traffic blocked ambulances and firetrucks hopping the median and plunging into on coming traffic, very frequently, do not need that!. As the 24,000 projected mass transit users will require 600 polluting buses a day, to ferry them to the Brookland Metro, less than 1 mile away, officially not walk-able, we really don't need that either.
As I"m sure you know that proper urban planning brings in mass transit, before rampant massive over-development. We have seen Office of Planning is not professional nor academic urban planners, just 'shoe horns" for massive over-development. Not your problem right!
We are up
against $ millions of dollars in legal teams, Holland and Knight, including our
A.G. Racine, who are all paid by our tax dollars. We are spending a fortune in
our own time and depleting our own very low incomes. WE are paying for both
sides of the table as our and your taxes are squandered on Holland and Knight
and an unethical process by DMPED and VMP. We want our AG to help us!
I have one question for you, my "public servants", my employees, one simple question, other than "you need to help"
the DC government and its development conglomerate "partners" to abide by the LAW!
please do not misunderstand the frustration I suffer by this Quixotic effort, its bad.
I appreciate the call back very much, please don't get me wrong, but you try some time to go up against this unethical cabal and private profit juggernaut, with our very low income and numerous responsibilities, like my job.
So, please answer this simple question:
Does the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have a "statute of limitations"? Is there a five year limit on a violation of constitutional rights?
I can be reached at 202-232-8391, Daniel Goldon Wolkoff. If you would like to actually learn about this issue, and meet the good citizens who are trying against massive odds, to preserve the historic park and all its environmental and civic benefits, for all our citizens and visitors alike, please join us, we welcome you and all our other "employees".
Tuesday night 8/27 at Lamond-Riggs library 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE
6:00 to 8:30 P.M. I would love to share more with you at this meeting of our community groups.
thank you, and truly your assistance is greatly appreciated, Daniel Goldon Wolkoff
--
Daniel Goldon Wolkoff
McMillan Park Conservancy
1231 Randolph St. NE
Washington, DC 20017
202-232-8391
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