Brookland resident Daniel Wolkoff: McMillan Park restoration initiative 2013

McMillan Park Restoration Initiative 2013

McMillan Park restoration outline: what about writing a proposal to the city council for legislation to restore McMillan. Write up a sequence of conservancy, restoration, park consortium, connections to Howard, CUA, Childrens Nat. Med. Center,or DPR, or better National Park Service Rock Creek Park District, etc.

Get a city council member to sponsor legislation. ..McMillan Park Restoration Act of 2013.

I love the way HPRB critiques the VMP building sketches...of course they fail to emphasize the site, historic design. We just can't plop down all kinds of modern buildings on a site like this..they need to say it's absurd to force all this extraneous stuff on an Olmsted park. The HPRB basically is rejecting the plan by smaller bites. Let's get them to realize the whole thing is ludicrous.

We need to properly outline the restoration of this park, renderings, and narratives, etc. Include the most appropriate adaptive-reuse that is compatible with 100% park plantings, landscaping, sustainable energy, save the sand filtration plant for Clean Water Security. Have a proper park, just like every single park in this city. We should lay out our recommendations like Re-mediating the WHC parking lots, and it's storm water runoff and new medical office buildings, on WHC itself. I do not see any reason not to properly separate the broad elements of this situation, where they belong. Lofts in warehouses, derelict buildings along the Red Line, continued re-development on old Safeway( now Shop-alot or whateverit`s called).  Let's flesh out the sensible and appropriate process of reclaiming McMillan Park, all of it--bistro, art studios, City Bazarre, water works. If a design like Miriam Gusevich and Collage City's recreation center is needed fine, park activities and concessions, sports and art activities, and related adaptive re-use. Develop funding, foundation, and trust.

Total estimate by Wash Post for park restoration in 2001 was $45 million.

Let's go for it. If NOMA can get $50 million for a place with no parks, we want the same or whatever the cost is.

Daniel Goldon Wolkoff

1231 Randolph Street, NE

Washington, DC 20017

202-232-8391