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Budget includes full commitment to McMillan redevelopment: $69.1M in '16, '17, and '18.
12:37 PM - 2 Apr 2015
More info will be shared here as it arrives in the newsroom (lol).
More info will be shared here as it arrives in the newsroom (lol).
North Capitol has the highest air pollution measured in DC. Let this hideous development demoltion and construction on 25 acres of OUR public land bringing 20,000 auto trips a day to the Medical Offices, cause Bloomindale will have more cancer, more asthma, and respiratory disease. Pave the green space with 3000 asphalt parking spaces, and increase the "urban heat island",, and destroy the healthy fresh air carbon sink...Environmentally atrocious land use,,, for Visionless McMillan Profits.
ReplyDeleteCouncil memberM cDuffie said "many people in DC know nothing about
McMillan" at City Council hearings.
Hearings that are a charade, and community input is consistently ignored.
Hearings where half of the required 15 copies of testimony are thrown in
the recycling bin before the hearing is concluded. demonstrating a
contemptuous system of burying our input as soon as testified. Committee
members do not attend their own hearing, then how many go find the
testimony or go dig up and read the "record", to be informed, so our
democracy can function?
I see the democratic requirement of gaining "informed consent of the
governed" is not a concern for any Council Member.
Mayor Bowser declares McMillan is a "done deal", before the Historic
Preservation Laws are carried out by the Mayor's Agent,,,
so it's a "fixed deal" with no pretense of "due process", what the powerful
want is what happens regardless.
Let's get the answers to some obvious questions:
-Who consented to keeping McMillan fenced off with barbed wire for 28 years?
-Who consented to paying $9.3 million, when the federal Govt. offered the
site to DC for FREE as long as it remained park and green space?
-How much money has been wasted, $9.3 million for over 28 years?
-What has the District government wasted on lawn mowing, blowing out
pollution, for 28 years, at possibly $250,000 a year to Spectrum
Management,
on a site nobody can walk on the lawn, or picnic?
-Which neighborhood in DC would allow a large greenspace to be fenced off
and access blocked for 28 years? Waiting for the real estate market to be
so "hot", that the "chosen" developer will make $billions" on the public
land "giveaway"?
-What citizen voted for "surplus" law that, the City Council empowered
itself to dictate "land give-aways", the reverse of Eminent Domain and
avoids federal oversight? McDonald behind the Lincoln Memorial next, or
7-11?
-How does the DC govt. manage to waste over $40million, and pay it's
development consultants $6 million, and then hold a vote at the end of this
corrupt process, that can stop the entire mess cold, and waste every penny
of the tax payers money?
-How can a legal process of carrying out the provisions of the Historic
Preservation Act be objective, when the Mayor's Agent (appointed by Gray)
is in mid deliberation on demolition of the protected, registered historic
site, and subdivision of the unitary site, when it is simultaneously zoned
for mega development, and the City Council has "surplussed" the $billion
site to private corporate ownership?
-How can this be described as a democratic process , involving community
input, when it is openly labeled "approval process", not even called
evaluative, objective or in any way "protecting the commons"?
-The Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development a Gray appointee
has with VMP, hired Jamie Fontaine, Baltimore PR firm, to run a fake grass
roots effort, "neutralize opposition", "and provide cover to politicians",
and muzzle the media, how is that ethical, and democratic?
-How can lead developer, a paid DC contractor//consultant spend $10,000 a
month on the Carmen Group, top gun lobbyists, to visit Council members
Cheh, Grosso, Bowser, Alexander and Barry,,at about $40,000 each appt. when
we are the client?
-WHO IS MINDING THE FOX!