Wednesday, April 29, 2015

McMillan revised concept/mixed use -- on the HPRB agenda for Thursday, 04-30-2015


From: HistoricWashington@yahoogroups.com
To: HistoricWashington@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:55:24 -0400
Subject: [HistoricWashington] HPRB Agenda and Consent Calendar April 23 and 30 2015
 
Greetings:
   
The Agenda along with staff reports for this two-day hearing are currently posted on the HPO website at:   http://planning.dc.gov/node/1043742
Please Note: Staff reports for two April 30 hearings will be posted to the website no later than Monday, April 20. They are:                        
Historic Landmark - Spring Valley Shopping Center, 4820 Massachusetts Avenue NW, HPA 15-252, concept/new construction of two-story retail and office building
U Street Historic District - 1481 Florida Avenue NW, HPA 15-244, revised concept/side addition
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HPRB AGENDA
April 23 and 30, 2015
   
The Historic Preservation Review Board will meet to consider the following item on April 23 and 30, 2015.  The meetings will begin at 9:00 am at 441 4th Street NW in Room 220 South. Applicants and those interested in testifying should arrive at least fifteen minutes prior to the assigned time for the case.
  
APRIL 23 MEETING
    
CONSENT CALENDAR
                      
HISTORIC LANDMARKS
A.            Plan of the City of Washington (L’Enfant Plan; L’Enfant-McMillan Plan) Proposed closing of 1st Street SW from R to T streets; R Street SW from Half to First Street; and S Street west of Half to Second Street; and portions of Potomac Avenue,  S.O. 13-14605
B.            First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1780 Columbia Road NW, HPA 15-290 (formerly 1770 Euclid), subdivision
    
CAPITOL HILL HISTORIC DISTRICT
C.            527 6th Street SE, HPA 15-282, concept/rear addition and deck
D.            631 South Carolina Ave SE, HPA 15-305, concept/rear addition
E.            432 New Jersey Ave SE, HPA 13-263, concept renewal/addition
  
CLEVELAND PARK HISTORIC DISTRICT
F.            3610 Macomb Street NW, HPA 15-302, addition and front porch alterations
   
DUPONT CIRCLE HISTORIC DISTRICT
G.           1758 Church Street NW, HPA 15-247, third-story addition
  
DENIAL CALENDAR
  
MOUNT VERNON SQUARE HISTORIC DISTRICT
      H.  1223 4th Street NW, HPA 15-296, permit/replace two front windows with triple-ganged windows
  
AGENDA
   
DESIGNATION HEARINGS
1.     9:00 – 9:45        Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1700 New York Avenue/500 17th Street/1701 E Street NW, Case 13-01, amendment to designate portions of the interior [Board deliberation and decision only; no additional testimony will be taken]
   
2.    9:45 – 11:30    West Heating Plant, 1051-1055 29th Street NW, Case 14-04
   
3.    11:30 – 12:00  7 Grant Circle NW, Case 15-08
        

12:00 – 1:00       LUNCH BREAK
         
4.    1:00 – 2:00     Emory United Methodist Church, 6100 (and 6104 and 6120) Georgia Avenue NW, Case 15-06
  
HISTORIC LANDMARK

5.    2:00 – 3:30     Emory United Methodist Church, 6100 Georgia Avenue NW, HPA 15-307, raze and HPA 15-319, concept/partial demolition and new construction [pending landmark]
  
                3:30 – 3:45           BREAK
  
DESIGNATION HEARING
  
6.    3:45 – 5:00     Capitol Hill Historic District amendment/expansion, Case 15-01

  
APRIL 30 MEETING
  
CONSENT CALENDAR
  
U STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT
I.             1481 Florida Avenue, NW, HPA 15-244, revised concept/side addition
  
AGENDA
  
HISTORIC LANDMARKS
7.  9:00 – 10:00     Stevens School, 1050 21st Street NW, HPA 15-219, concept/renovation, new construction
            
8.  10:00 – 11:15   McMillan Sand Filtration Site, 2501 1st Street NW, HPA 15-090, revised concept/mixed use, multiple-dwelling building with ground-level retail on north service corridor
    
FOGGY BOTTOM HISTORIC DISTRICT
9.   11:15 – 12:00   2532 I Street NW, HPA 15-293, concept/three-story rear addition and roof deck
     
12:00 – 1:00       LUNCH BREAK
  
HISTORIC LANDMARK
10.   1:00 – 2:00     Spring Valley Shopping Center, 4866 Massachusetts Avenue NW, HPA 15-283,concept/one-story front addition and renovation of front exterior space
  
11.    2:00 – 3:15    Spring Valley Shopping Center, 4820 Massachusetts Avenue NW, HPA 15-252, concept/new construction of two-story retail and office building
         

                3:15 – 3:30           BREAK
  
U STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT
12.   3:30 – 4:15     1504 Swann Street NW, HPA 15-128, rear addition and roof deck
   
SHAW HISTORIC DISTRICT
13.   4:15 – 5:00      810 O Street, NW, HPA 15-248, concept/new construction of 9 story apartment building
                                       
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Bruce Yarnall
Operations and Grants Manager
DC Historic Preservation Office/Office of Planning
1100 4th Street SW  Suite E650
Washington, DC 20024
T – (202) 442-8835
F -  (202) 442-7638

1 comment:

Daniel in brookland said...

Urban turf comment
I love when the developers, thier media, and their slaves in the DC govt..say
"the Crummel School or McMillan site is long vacant"
When it is them,, THEM, that left the Crummel School deteriorating for 30 years, and blocked off the McMillan site, with barbed wire, for 28 years!. This is racist and economic class discrimination,, how much did these same hack city council members give for parks in upper NW, and serve the rich.
Can't even a real estate writer assign accountability to this corrupt "market of influence" pretending to be a government?
Tommy Wells and every city council hack, voted to allow the theft (Land Surplus and Disposition) of McMillan Park and approval of (VMP)Visionless McMillan Partners atrocious humongous development...Why is the denial of lower income and predominantly African American areas of DC for parks and greenspace TAKEN FOR GRANTED?
We have a fascinating historic site being stolen by developers for their $billions in profit,,When we need our public land,,OUR LAND!,, for a Glen Echo type arts/education campus, a DC Wolf Trap outdoor concert stage with sunset vistas,,,and 20 acres of urban agriculture,, that preserves the park...STOP WELLS, STOP BOWSER, STOP Trammel Crow, VMP and their illegal PR fake grassroots campaign Fontaine Company that "neutralizes opposition", and violates our rights to participate in our own government, our own land,,,stop institutional corruption and racism in DC..STOP BOWSER and McDuffie, Mendelson,, Cheh,, Grosso,,, the next generation of criminals!

We, you and I, all of us, must have the guts to stand up for a sustainable future for our children. To oppose the financial, industrial, political and social structures that are destroying the earth's environment. We have to stop these excessive land development monstrosities, and their consumption of our resources. We must have the integrity, to deny abuse of power, malfeasance in office, and institutional corruption. A "culture of corruption" in the DC government, destructive to our city, our families, our quality of life, our health and destroying the earth.

We have to be strong and brave and do what is right, to conserve the green space for a healthy quality of life. It is treason against posterity to support the same destructive things that are causing this environmental cataclysm, from the Amazon Rain Forest to your block.

Massive out of scale, out of balance projects, the VMP "Monstrosity on Michigan Avenue", this grossly out of proportion plan from applicant Vision McMillan Partners must be rejected, and the safe, healthy sustainable alternatives explored. Some of these politicians were elected honestly, but they are a "Marketplace of influence " and blocking their own constituents priorities.

McMillan Park is public property, and no politician, developer or the Zoning Commission have the right to overwhelm the public good with this misguided project by applicant development conglomerate.
So when Bowser takes $7 million from Crummel, and gives $300 million to Visionless McMillan Partners,,please wake up!