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Thursday, September 07, 2017

Daniel Wolkoff: Weigh in to defeat VMP's "National Harbor" for Bloomingdale

From: WARD5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WARD5@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2017 1:59 AM
To: Ward 5
Cc: Daniel Wolkoff
Subject: [WARD5] Weigh in to defeat Vision McMillan Partners "National Harbor" in Bloomingdale

Mayor’s Agent hearing will take place on September 11, beginning at 9am and running until about 5:30pm. If necessary a continuation hearing will be held on September 18. The hearing will take place at 441 4th Street NW, Room 220 South and is open to the public (you will need ID to get through security).

If you wish to submit written testimony please email it to me by Friday, September 8 at 4pm.

Please say "support" or "oppose" on your letter to the Mayor's Agent determining how to divide up our public land for massive over urbanization.

More information on the proceedings can be found here: https://planning.dc.gov/node/ 1211347


The public is invited to submit testimony in "opposition" or "support" for the McMillan Re-development plan by Conglomerate VMP, Vision McMillan Partners. Just about every big developer is in on this one. EYA, Jair Lynch and Trammel Crow are the main partners with the DC govt.

DMPED is a partner and in clear conflict of interest,  at the same time is evaluater and regulator of it's own business deal

A "National Harbor" in historic Bloomingdale, this development is bigger, "The Monstrosity on Michigan Avenue".

The plan includes 50 buildings, 700 condos and rentals, and two mammoth medical office towers of 1million sq ft each. Medical offices are speculative real estate right on top of Washington Hospital Center and 5 other medical facilities, while East of the River  goes wanting for medical facilities, a violation of the Comprehensive Plan.

The developers TIS (Traffic Impact Study) predicts 31,000 vehicle trips per day on congested N. Capitol and 24,000 mass transit users with no metro closer than 1 mile, requiring 600 shuttles per day. The plan has 2900 parking spaces. Do you support this on our public green space?



McMillan Coalition for Sustainable Agriculture hopes Ward 5 residents will send in their comments with "oppose" at the top. We need recreation space, green space to reduce the "urban heat island effect", a Glen Echo of classes and activities for our families, a DC Wolf Trap outdoor concert stage, and Urban  agriculture in the 20 acres of preserved underground filtration cells can produce millions of pounds of fresh food, careers, and we can train our youth and under employed in building trades restoring our historic site. We need a DC Central Park to offer a unified meeting place for the community cohesion that is so sorely missing.

The developers and Deputy Mayor hired Jamie Fontaine PR firm to "neutralize  opposition", a violation of the First Amendment.

A recent article in the Intowner describes the "muck" this deal has sunk into.....


McMillan Park links

Peoples Alternative Plan for McMillan Park

Prof. Miriam Gusevich Catholic University of America with Collage City Studio You tube power point



National Register of Historic Places McMillan nomination

(http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature /places/13000022.htm ) by DC Office of Historic Preservation architectural Historian Kim Williams. She describes a remarkably intact, fascinating, even charming engineering marvel slated for demolition in violation of federal law.

Bowser and PR Firm Fontaine lied "it was never a park", The High Line in NY was never a park, it was an elevated Railroad. They had the foresight to save it, and a fabulous success for NY.

Bloomngdale elder Ms.Ella relates her childhood spent in the PARK, the children called McMillan "our beach".

                                    https://youtu.be/X0iqLezE6G0

To ram the development down our throats the DC govt. hired Jamie Fontaine PR firm to "neutralize opposition", a violation of the Constitutional right to "petition the govt. for redress of grievances".


community struggle to Save McMillan Park, preserving the ENTIRE "GREAT PLACE", Olmsted designed surface-park and existing 20 acres underground, creates the exciting potential for Sustainable large scale "indoor agriculture", numerous adaptive re-use that is allowed with Historic Preservation and building real careers, parks are economic development.

Different than Kojo and Roger K. Lewis  model.                  


                            http://youtu.be/ILzWmw53Wwo


Daniel Goldon Wolkoff
Adams Morgan Stained Glass
1231 Randolph Street, NE
Washington, DC 20017
Tel: 202-232-8391
www.adamsmorganstainedglass.com

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