The InTowner: "The McMillan Park Reservoir Mess: City officials Seem to be Ignoring the Increased Opposition to the Plans for Historic Site’s Development, Perhaps at Their Peril"

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The McMillan Park Reservoir Mess: City officials Seem to be Ignoring the Increased Opposition to the Plans for Historic Site’s Development, Perhaps at Their Peril

Published: October 18th, 2016

The Mayor’s office isn’t returning phone calls, City Council has been forced by the courts to release documents on a no-bid contract it has claimed are “privileged,” an Advisory Neighborhood Commission has been pulled apart by warring factions, and neighbors all around the city’s historic McMillan Reservoir Park between First and North Capitol Streets in Northwest DC’s Bloomingdale neighborhood are hopping mad. As they see it, the city is blithely giving away one of its largest and last remaining, green open spaces.
                             
Further. the DC Court of Appeals, having heard oral arguments from a case handed up from DC Superior Court, is expected early next year to render a decision regarding the legality of zoning decisions for the McMillan Park area made by the DC Zoning Commission and another entity of special powers at City Hall, known as the “Mayor’s Agent.”
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