| From: | Devi Bengfort (devi@bengfort.com) |
| Sent: | Wed 1/22/14 3:45 PM |
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Dear MAG,
This is a reminder that MAG will have a special 2nd monthly meeting tomorrow, Thursday January 23 from 7-8:30 pm to focus specifically on the Community Benefits Agreement with Vision McMillan Partners. The meeting is tentatively scheduled to take place at Trinity College. To ensure we have enough space, if you plan to attend, please REPLY TO DEVI KELLER (devi@bengfort.com) indicating whether you plan to come. Please also be on the look out for an email tomorrow confirming the meeting location.
I've attached several documents related to the Community Benefits Package, and copies of flyers for MAG representatives to distribute to their neighborhoods.
WHAT: Community Benefits Agreement with Vision McMillan Partners
WHY: Vision McMillan Partners has committed to providing money towards projects that support the local community. In return, they ask for neighborhood support for the project. This is a chance for our community to discuss and request specific uses for those funds that will best benefit our neighborhood.
update:
WHERE: All Nations Baptist Church, 2001 North Capitol Street NE
update:
WHERE: All Nations Baptist Church, 2001 North Capitol Street NE
The restoration of McMillan Park will increase real estate values in the surrounding park side area. But, the VMP plan will make your houses the next place for the real estate investors to devalue, grab up, demolish and replace your block with more multi-unit development. It is already happening around the hideous, out of scale Catholic U.and 901 Monroe development in Brookland. It is called "warehousing".
ReplyDeleteA proper balanced real historic park side community will add desirable cool, shady, breezy park side housing in a balanced process.
The city will make revenue from healthy McMillan Park activities fees, and amazing "indoor agriculture" in the 20 acres underground. See amazing indoor farming video:
http://youtu.be/ILzWmw53Wwo
This agriculture can produce 5 to 10 times the vegetables and fruit of surface farming, use a tenth water, provide fresh fish in aquaponics, use no pesticides or truck transport from across the continent, fresher riper food. We can have all the things this neighborhood needs, including a full size market, with out 10,000 more cars a day, and a joke for a park. That is a mundane lawn,,,we need world class designs in park restoration,, VMP is just not up to the Olmsted level, and we lose the whole legacy, a great city deserves. Adaptive re-use of the existing land, under ground caverns and compatible concessions and commercial, can all be done with out VMP, or this mega-urbanization. Your VMP psychophants are the obsessed ones. The public owns this place, and the community can create all it needs, without handing billions to talentless developers.
We can make this happen, we can conserve this place, just as Sen. McMillan planned for us, are you so brainwashed that EYA/VMP is the only way to "move forward in DC".
Sorry I just believe the DC govt. has made such a miserable disaster here, the flooding, the waste of tens of millions, and we need parks, we can have the entire 113 acre reservoir site opened up for us, to jog, walk, like a real city. And extend this into AFRH, and Howard U. just like a real city where people matter. Richmond, Philly, NY, maybe your home town needs EYA/VMP?
The DC govt. let this neighborhood flood for decades.
Would the flooding of human sewage in the basements in Kalorama have waited 30 years for mitigation? Why in the world would you support this miserable embarrassment, called the DC govt.. go ahead keep supporting them, the ones not in prison yet. You are so scared to do anything for yourself, you let felons, embezzlers, and inbred incumbent hacks, elected by massive fraud to guide the future of DC. With this misguided government support, we are in real trouble here!
We need parks, we have McMillan Historic District Park, it's only you and other VMP supporters who are making this hard. JOIN US,,,why in the world would you let the DC govt. continue destroying the environment, the trees, parks, and taking our taxes to spend on their privileged constituents in upper NW.
Friends, a less SICK govt. would have re-planted McMillan in 1986, not wasted $250,000 a year on pollution for mowing this lawn,and a lush grove of trees would now be 100 feet, shading our picnics, and creating cool breezes as you enjoy a stroll to see the Autumn sunset. You can make this possible or you can help the hacks destroy it with the wrecking ball, and then suffer endless construction(good for the Chesapeake Bay!). Do you like heavy equipment exhaust fumes, with your support of VMP , you'll be breathing heavy equipment exhaust fumes for 15 years, a bargain! You get what you ask for, just get it straight in your yuppie mind and you'll figure it out, just don't wait ,,let''s do this now.