Outgoing DC City Administrator Allen Lew is mentioned in this Post article on incoming DC City Administrator Rashad Young. Allen Lew's efforts to address Bloomingdale flooding is specifically mentioned.
Rashad Young, Alexandria city manager, is Bowser’s pick to run D.C. government
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Lew also played a lead role in planning several other large-scale projects, including a $1 billion joint venture between the city and Pepco to bury troublesome power lines and an ambitious effort with D.C. Water to end sewer flooding in the Bloomingdale neighborhood by accelerating plans for a storage tunnel in the area.
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Allen Lew
Didn't Lew admit at the Ground Breaking for the DC Water Tunnel, that it is for the development at McMillan and armed Forces Retirement Home. If the DC government cared about the flooding in Bloomingdale, it would have been repaired 30 years ago,,the zoning of McMillan is criminal!
ReplyDeleteIf no one else will comment, I'll comment! Fist the inspired author is Daniel Wolkoff, not David.
The "talking points" that Fontaine and VMP have loaded on our community are such bunk. crap!
http://youtu.be/uXkOgHV7Lhw
Parks are development, and they produce revenue. How much annual revenue does
Wolf Trap produce for National Park Service, and The Wolf Trap Foundation? We need a Wolf Trap concert stage at McMillan,, with awesome architecture(unlike the hideous designs of VMP). We need skating rinks, that convert to roller skating in the summer, a Glen Echo historic restoration with 365 days a year of classes, performance, music, art, dance. We desperately need a place to train young people and the under-employed in building trades, as they restore our park/historic site.This Civilian Conservation Corp will spin-off into a rehab and renovate service for senior home owners, to help them keep insulate and upgrade the condition of their homes. We need outdoor activity, to keep us healthy, not medical offices, we want to keep you out of the doctors office, not ruin our park with hideous offices.
So the talking point is that DC needs revenue,, sure like the $25 million our government officials have wasted on fencing us out for 27 years and Spectrum Maintenance, flushing $250,000 a year down the toilet on some fraudulent contract for maintenance.
Google Central Park,, remember the "Great Meadow", Delacorte Theatre, Wolman Ice Skating rink with summer concerts? Something wonderful about large open spaces in the city!
In NY, revenue from 21 hot dog vendors in Central Park will total $60 million in 30 years, no bonds, no demolition, no construction, no paving, no 3000 parking spaces, just grass, and trees.
One hot dog vendor in NY's Central Park, operates a pushcart at the entrance to the Central Park zoo, and pays $289,000 in fees to the city of NY. The top 20 vendors pay over $100,000 a year to NYC to operate their pushcarts and sell food in parks. That is $2.3 million a year from 21 food cart vendors, but DMPED, Mayor (still un-indicted, but offered a plea deal!) Gray, Miss Bowser, Kenyan McDuffie and the Visionless McMillan Partners "know better". Only in DC, parks are barren empty useless burdens on the city govt., everywhere else parks are "development".
http://youtu.be/ILzWmw53Wwo
Anyone know the annual revenue from the Glen Echo Consortium? How much business is done at the various concessions and bistro in Bryant Park in NY?
McMillan wasn't a park, according to the "talking points" of a DMPED funded disinformation campaign from Baltimore PR firm Jamie Fontaine. Our tax dollars used to "neutralize opposition", and this is legal and from a city with Ethics reform by Muriel Bowser!
The lobbyists for Trammel Crow, Carmen Group were paid something like $250,000 for lobbying 5 City Council members, over two years, with our tax dollars. If they use the telephone or send a fax, we are charged a $454.00 clerical fee!!! Ever wonder what your taxes are being used for?
Yes, as to your first point, Allen Lew bragged that the First Street Tunnel in Bloomingdale is for the development of McMillan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6vG3TXVo8w
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