last chance to submit your testimony for the McMillan Park HPRB hearing by today at noon

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From: Katelijn van den Berg <katelijnvandenberg@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:45 PM
Subject: Last Chance to Submit your Testimony for the McMillan Park HPRB Hearing by April 3rd at Noon; Hearing on Thursday, April 4th @ 2.30 pm in Room 220-South @ 441, 4th Street, NW
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The DC Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) has scheduled a hearing on 4 April 2013 to review the revised VMP development proposal for McMillan Park. Please join us for the hearing to testify in person or submit written testimony in advance to steve.callcott@dc.gov. The deadline for submitting written public testimony for the hearing is noon on Wednesday, 3 April 2013. The posts below contain useful information for developing your testimony.  Additionally, please review HPRB's comments from the previous VMP hearing. 

The HPRB hearing will begin at 9:00 AM at 441 4th Street NW in Room 220-South, the office building immediately outside the Judiciary Square Metro station (Courthouse exit), 2nd floor.

The MCMILLAN PARK RESERVOIR portion of the hearing is planned during the following time period:

2:45 - 5:00 PM – VMP Revised Master Plan and Design Guidelines

Those interested in testifying in person should arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the assigned time for the case. Please join us there to request that HPRB reject the revised VMP plan. Each person is allowed three minutes of verbal testimony, and you may submit additional testimony in writing. Please bring 15 copies of your testimony with you if you are unable to submit it in advance of the deadline.

Please also review the excellent alternative plan for McMillan Park prepared by Collage City Studio.

We look forward to seeing you there.