Daniel Wolkoff on McMillan: "The Mayor doesn't know his own public comment hearings?"

From Brookland resident Daniel Wolkoff:

        

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Sent: Monday, August 5, 2013 2:42 AM
Subject: The Mayor doesn't know his own public comment hearings?

Daniel Goldon Wolkoff

1231 Randolph ST NE
202-232-8391

To all DC loving people,

I told the mayor , on Kojo Namdi's Politics Hour on WAMU , Friday, we need parks, and thousands of people want McMillan Park restored to serve our needs as a Glen Echo type art/performance/ cultural recreation for "community building". He sees all the hundreds of construction cranes as "community building" and said he hasn't heard of people resisting the development at McMillan. Wresting our own resources back from an out of touch, uninterested group city officials, many directly corrupt and even criminal is what HE AND A TINY CLIQUE of his appointees IS CONFRONTING US WITH! 

So the Mayor hasn't heard thousands of people resistant to the development at McMillan. Maybe he lives in a delusional world of constant waste, and endless new construction, where critical  environmental issues are all mitigated, or ignored. He wants to go on damaging the environment right up to 2032 when his "Sustainable

DC Plan" will make us the most green city in the country, yeah with the tiny tree  saplings all in a row,  where   once stood our mature tree canopy. Maybe that's why the neighborhood flooding has been allowed to damage our homes for so many decades, while election after election, this crop of city council members play musical chairs on the deck of the Titanic!

Maybe, these are his deputies who ignored over 100 people pouring out their hearts , begging not to have OUR PARK "surplussed" at HIS public comment  meeting. Maybe there was no video or any other satisfactory recording of the public comment, because he is ignoring his own meeting. Surplussing our $billion park to ten talentless developers, architects, landscape architects and urban planners, all failing miserably to rework an Olmsted treasure. Maybe they are delusional, and arrogant, that the work of the founder of the American School of Landscape Architecture is easy to just re-do any way you'd like! Maybe very few artists could take the Mona Lisa down from the museum wall and rework it. Or Michael Angelo, and just save this, delete that, etc. and still have a masterpiece. Maybe the ducking and shuffling by this ""design team" at HPRB hearings is because these midgets of urban planning are not capable of working with Olmsted, MAYBE! The fact that they are not capable of anything with any world class level is OBVIOUS, and as an artist myself with great integrity, it is absurd , the idea they can take this pedestrian group of developments and interweave them with any acceptable design, other than mish-moshing then on the site, discordant, and crowding, just ludicrous. They were chosen after EYA had made a bribe( donation) to Federal Prisoner Harry "Tommy" Thomas Jr. not a design competition. DUH!

Maybe that is what sets apart the "world class" site concept from , Miriam Gusevich www.mcmillan park.com, work with the Collage City grads from CUA so much higher, and above the garbage VMP is producing, and it's endless attempts at re-design, on re-design, and on, and on, and on.

There has been such a criminal waste, social injustice keeping this park off limits, by a few city officials who have swollen heads, and huge irrational self-images, who know about mega-construction companies and Development teams , but can care less about the people of DC. Or maybe there is nothing wrong with keeping McMillan fenced off with barbed wire, cause the mayor thinks it's fine, he told me on Kojo Namdi WAMU, Friday, the city has 7600 acres of parks. Well if 1/5 is in this section of DC, then that's less than 1200 here and 6400 where he spends our money to serve the wealthy areas with much more parks. His response about all the dc park land, was about as arrogant a drivle as I have ever heard.

He doesn't know about the 13 months of testimony at HPRB, right in his office of planning. Doesn't know about ANC resolutions, Bloomingdale Civic association opposition, other neighborhood groups, Friend's of Mcmillan, Mcmillan Park Committee active for 25 years, letters from National Olmsted Association, Sierra Club, National Trust, letter from his own co-member of the DC city council chair Phil Mendelson. The mayor doesn't know about testimony to Kwami Brown Roundtable on Ward 5 Development opposed to this marginal charade, trying to rework Olmsted's treasure. The mayor doesn't know what was testified at Michael Brown's Roundtable on McMillan, before he was charged with accepting bribes from the FBI.

The mayor is up on swinging deals with all kinds of corporate interests, stadiums, Marriot hotels, Taxi CabVISA companies ($70 million), Redskins training camps where DC needs housing and services!

The mayor needs to join his friends Brown, Brown, and Thomas , and resign before indictment, who also brought us this misguided, wrong, wasteful, and failing development re-designed 20 times.  Michael (indicted) Brown, and Kwame (indicted, convicted, and serving his ridiculous pitiful little sentence), and Harry "Tommy" Thomas Jr. playing Scrabble and Monopoly, doing yoga, arts and crafts and training seeing eye dogs at the federal prison camp in Alabama for stealing, what we know of, $350,000 from youth groups. These are the criminals who did win elections to represent us, in our effort to secure the restoration of this park, for kids, families, dc visitors, our own Glen Echo, of 365 days a year of art, performance, theatre, and still have the services of a City Market, urban agriculture, urban beach and much more in adaptive re-use of OUR existing Olmsted Park. 

The mayor isn't at all held back by his massive $650,000 electoral fraud, bribes to other candidates, three refusals to meet with the federal prosecutor, three top campaign officials convicted and serving sentences, and an ongoing investigation that is starting to look as FISHY as this set of corrupt politicians. What is Ron Machen waiting for, our legitimate interests as citizens are being disserved by his stalled investigation and we need to ask WHY? 

We have three city council members running for mayor, Bowser, Evans, and Wells, and David Grosso and Vincent Orange, and  Anita Bonds, Catania are our At-Large members, every one of these ""representatives" have to gain some GUTS, cause they are all failing us miserably as is Kenyan McDuffie who is failing to even be a NEIGHBOR!

They all obviously must share the Mayors delusions and ability only to suppress our legitimate rights.

Catania wants the mayor to resign, but isn't lifting a finger to protect his constituents from Mayor Gray's arrogance , and lieing, and corrupt suppression of  DC peoples long wait for decent parks, rights to the same advantages lavished on NW at our expense, and common sense. NOMA gets $50 million for parks, places like the RI Ave shopping area are in desperate need of re-development but this arrogant clique are going take  McMillan. Waiting , and ready to be restored for over 27 years, never answer to its exclusion from public use and hand it over to ten talentless developer teams sucking at the pig trough of public money, a $billion give away of OUR ASSETS, add $319 million taxpayer expense subsidies.

There is no limit to this arrogant, corrupt, dictatorial "symbiotic  Relationship" swinging  around our assets, resources and virtually our healthy environment. If your so correct Mr. "unindicted" Mayor Gray, hold a  ballot referendum,  for us the voters on McMillan, like in a DEMOCRACY , are you AFRAID, and present all the options, not just your little clique and criminal former council fellows pitiful process. 

When the entire thing makes no sense, is a grudging stupid failure and has every possible thing wrong with it, all you 've got is keeping the citizens ignorant of this RIP-OFF.  McMillan is our National Treasure, for our health and recreation, and our kids to play, and for us to plant, and bike, and grow "community" it is not Mayor Gray's or the DC govt's land, it is ours. You and the rest of these political hacks have made such a mess and waste out of your so-called "stewardship", it would be hysterical, if not such a serious and blatant affront to all DC residents. YOU ARE FIRED along with  DC Council, that openly admits they don't even know anything about McMillan. When you wake up and go to your job and give away billions in public assets, daily, no wonder your an arrogant crew, each one.

We need to fight, get the mayor punished for electoral fraud, get Catania, and Cheh, who are so brave to call for his resignation, they need to straight jacket this criminal, simply to protect us, and lead the city to a decent healthy place with some environmental conscience. Stop the "clique Tregoning",  hell bent on filling all the greenspace, cutting down the mature tree canopy and spending OUR  fortune on sewer retention tunnels, instead of real stewardship and  responsible planning and zoning.

Daniel Goldon Wolkoff

1231 Randolph ST NE
202-232-8391
http://www.adamsmorganstainedglass.com/